Subject: Using Spanish character set in pine?

From: Bill Falls <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:33:37 -0500 (EST)

To the pine mailing list:

1.  Would someone please send me instructions for joining this list, and
until then please cc: me in any replies or I won't see them 8-(

2.  My ISP doesn't know the answer to this and I don't find it in the pine
help and man systems:  How can I switch to the European character set
Latin-8 or ISO 8859-1 in my UNIX shell account or in pine (running version
3.95q).  I've been fudging Spanish using ascii for years but am now on a
project where I really need to write it correctly in the body of E-mail
messages (MIME attachments are no problem). 

So how do I switch to that character set, either on the fly or
permanently? 

3.  If someone can tell me the answer to that question, please also tell
me the pine keystrokes I would use to access the non-ascii characters -
for Spanish that would be the accented (acute) lowercase vowels, u with
dieresis (umlaut), n and N with tilde (~), and opening ? and !. 

Might as well send the whole set since I do messages occasionally in other
languages and we can also pass it along to the whole CAIS community.

Thanks for any help.

Bill Falls <[email-masked]>
Washington, DC

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:08:24 +0100 (CET)

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  >until then please cc: me in any replies or I won't see them 8-(

Send a request to 
	[email-masked]:
with the body
	subscribe pine-info [email-masked]

  >2. How can I switch to the European character set Latin-8 or ISO 8859-1
  >in my UNIX shell account or in pine (running version 3.95q).

In the S(etup), C(onfig) screen, set the character-set to iso-8859-1.

  >dieresis (umlaut), n and N with tilde (~), and opening ? and !.

On your unix account, type

	man ascii

and

	man latin1

If you want to take those home, try

	man xy > file (e.g. man ascii > ascii.table).
	
The exact procedures of actually mapping your keyboard cannot be discussed
in brief form. Your ISP should know how to do that, and you can also find
the Linux Keyboard-HOWTO on the internet. If you're working under X, you
should take a look at Xkeycaps, a program that lets you modify your
keymappings quite easily.

Enjoy. If you have further questions concerning 8bit-nntp-posting and
8bit-esmtp-negotiation, please turn to Alan J. Flavell
<[email-masked]>, because he's much smarter at at that than I am.

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn

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D+(++) G++>+++ e++>+++ h r++>+++ y+**

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From: Bill Falls <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:34:05 -0500 (EST)

To the Pine Discussion Forum:

Robin Socha just answered all my questions very thoroughly.  No further
direct E-mail replies needed at this point as I am now on the list.

Vielen dank, Robin!