Subject: surpression of differing charsets warning

From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:52:46 -0500 (CDT)

Given the number of iso-8859-1-generating MUA's out there (Outlook,
Eudora), there is often a large amount of wasted screen space when Pine
warns about having a differing charset than what the viewed message is
(e.g., about 5 lines, including whitespace):

    [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

I recommend that Pine have an option to either surpress or minimize the
warning.  A one-liner like this might suffice given an option change:

  [ Charsets ] [ message: "iso-8859-1" ] [ display: "US-ASCII" ]

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:39:50 -0700 (PDT)

> warning.  A one-liner like this might suffice given an option change:

I think a better solution in your case is to change your charset to
ISO-8859-1.  Pine will still send text-only messages in US-ASCII, but it
will also be able to send and receive ISO-8859-1 messages without errors.

An option to supress the charset warning would still be nice, though.  I
don't need to be told whether I can read something.  :)

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