Subject: Diacritics on Pine

From: [email-masked] (Buzz Haughton)
Date: 3 Apr 1997 17:49:32 GMT

I have occasion to compose messages in French, Spanish, and German using Pine (I'm using version
3.9.something; I forget the exact version number). On my computer using Windows 95 at work I
have no problem supplying the various unlauts, circumflexes, etc. using the Windows convention
of ALT + numeric pad key. 

At home I use a Macintosh. When I'm in Pine, the Mac convention of adding diacritics by pressing
the Option with another key doesn't work.

Can anyone tell me if there is some way of adding diacritics in Pine on a Mac?

Buzz Haughton
University of California, Davis
[email-masked]

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From: "John A. Haddon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:15:59 -0700

I have another somewhat related question.  A few months ago, I discovered
that I could get foreign symbols in pine (version 3.91) simply by using
the "meta" key (marked with a diamond on my Sun keyboard).  Since then,
our system administrator has installed pine 3.95, and this now no longer
works.  (Meta-anything results in a beep and an "Unknown Command:"
message.)  I did check that this is not the result of some other change in
the system -- it is still possible for me to run version 3.91, and I can
still get the foreign symbols on that version.

Does anyone know anything about this?  Is there a setup option that would
allow me to get the foreign symbols again?  I am using a Sparc 20 running
SunOS 4.1.4 and Xwindows.

Thanks for your help! 

John A. Haddon 
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (TRAN Huu Da)
Date: 12 Apr 1997 04:01:57 GMT

Un jour, John A. Haddon ([email-masked])
      affirmait publiquement que:

| (Meta-anything results in a beep and an "Unknown Command:"  message.)  I
| did check that this is not the result of some other change in the system
| -- it is still possible for me to run version 3.91, and I can still get
| the foreign symbols on that version. 

Make sure that the character-set is "ISO-8859-1". I remember having that
problem but got it resolved somehow. Perhaps, Xmodmap is a good
alternative too.

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