Subject: Re: Charsets, Pine for Unix, and Unicode

From: Bob Rasmussen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:39:55 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Lynn Zhang wrote:

> Do you have more information on this? Lynx? UTF-8? Do you have a web site?

Info on Lynx is at
   http://lynx.browser.org/

By the way, our Anzio (Windows telnet client) can handle UTF-8 to/from the
host. See below.

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From: "R. Terrell Holmes" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:27:15 -0700 (PDT)

Is this a personal spat?  Because I assume the whole
list is being subjected to it.

> >> Do not Cc list members when replying; it's
> annoying.
> >
> >I've always wished Pine had an easy way to respond
> to the list and not the
> >sender. Perhaps you should volunteer and contribute
> that feature to the
> >community.
> 
> Suggestion: use the List-Post header.
> 
>     [ Note: This message contains email list
> management information ]
> 
> >> 2. Irrelevant; headers MUST be 7 bit characters,
> remember? They wouldn't be
> >> translated.
> >But the header MAY contain a charset identifier,
> which may not match the
> >user's charset, so currently Pine will display it
> incorrectly.
> 
> Based on the charset header, an attempt can be made
> to use a proper
> filter, or tell the terminal.
> 
> >> 3. So what? Pine is a Mail client. Proper display
> of a character set is the
> >> duty of the terminal. 
> >Absurd. 
> 
> On *nix, that is not absurd in the least.
> 
> -- 
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> All generalizations are false, including this one.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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