Subject: character display question

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:25:46 -0800 (PST)

Ok, I don't know enough about different character sets to explain this well,
so I'll just explain what I'm seeing.

This situation is with pine 4.30..

I got a message on a work mailing list, and in his signature, this guy had
<emdash>Jens

Originally, I had ISO-8859-1 set as my character set, and on this
terminal emulator (Terminal, on Mac OS X), I was seeing
[box character]ens

So it was 'eating up' two characters.

Anyway, I changed my character set in pine to US-ASCII, and it is still
displaying incorrectly.  I now see
^<diamond>Jens

>From the original message with this problem, the attachment index shows:
   1   ~35 lines   Text/PLAIN (charset: Unknown "windows-1252")
   2   ~39 lines   Text/ENRICHED (charset: Unknown "windows-1252")

And I see:
    [ The following text is in the "windows-1252" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

At the top of the message display....

Is this just an inherent limitation of pine (or some other display
program pine is using)?   It would seem to me that it should make "obvious"
subsitutions, in this case <emdash> replaced with "-" or possibly two
hyphens.

I can provide more info if necessary or even a sample email that shows
the problem.

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:44:12 -0800 (PST)

> terminal emulator (Terminal, on Mac OS X), I was seeing

I've seen similar problems caused by incorrect (non ISO-8859-1 compatible)
fonts on Win32.  For example, if you're using "Terminal" as your font and
you try to display an ISO-8859-1 formatted message, it will misdisplay
characters even if your Pine character set is set to ISO-8859-1.  To make
it work properly, you have to choose a different font like "FixedSys".

Play around with some different fonts and see if that's the problem you're
encountering.  If not, let us know.

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