Subject: Sedish characters in the US

From: [email-masked] (Jonas Andersson)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:46:20 GMT

Hello!

I am trying to correspond with a friend in the US using Swedish
characters. I use IE 3.02 and my friend is using Pine (PC?) in version
x.xx (clue, friend at berkeley).
My Swedish characters o-with dots and so on come across as 
K and so on.
What should I send to get proper Swedish characters in the other end.
Is there a font missing and could i write an installation program that
installs it?
Anybody who knows the answer to this one.

Jonas
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Jonas Andersson
E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Jun 1997 20:37:53 +0200

>> "Jonas" == Jonas Andersson <[email-masked]> writes:

Jonas> Hello!  I am trying to correspond with a friend in the US using
Jonas> Swedish characters. I use IE 3.02 and my friend is using Pine
Jonas> (PC?) in version x.xx (clue, friend at berkeley).  My Swedish
Jonas> characters o-with dots and so on come across as K and so on.
Jonas> What should I send to get proper Swedish characters in the
Jonas> other end.  Is there a font missing and could i write an
Jonas> installation program that installs it?  Anybody who knows the
Jonas> answer to this one.

No. By default, pine is set to us-ascii, which is a Good Thing [TM],
because it's the lowest common denominator. Now, I'm not sure what
exactly Internet Exploder does, but I know what the other MS programs
do, and from what I've seen, I'm pretty sure you're not producing
high-ascii (iso-latin-?) but something entirely different, probably
rtf.

Now, you could either drop those diacritics ("we" say ae instead of d
[which you're probably not seeing right now, either]) or use TeX code, 
i.e. \"a which certain u*ix newsreaders can translate. <*hint*> This
would be a nice feature for pine, too... </*hint*>.

Otherwise, you'll have to attach a file format your friend can read
(html would be one that can be read with pine for u*ix, though it
requires an external viewer).

In short: If you're not using English, you're doomed >;->

Later,
Robin

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