Subject: Thought I knew all I needed to about Pine....

From: Meph Istopheles <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:19:52 -0700 (PDT)

Hey,

  It's been some time since I've posted to this list, but I've 
found something new I'd like, & I can't find the answer either on 
the Web or on other lists.

  At the moment, I'm using pine 4.50 & bash 2.05 (I'll be 
switching from RH to gentoo next weekend, but I should think I'll 
have little trouble if I find a solution which applies to my 
current config).

  Because I will be moving from the US to Poland next year, I am 
receiving more & more mail with Central European fonts.  While X 
supports the set, & I can read Web pages properly with Mozilla, 
pine won't support many characters which are common to Central 
European, but not the Western or Latin (my primary fonts are for 
British English) sets.

  As this problem is also happening in my text-based browser w3m, 
I suspect that the problem may actually be bash, but no one seems 
to know how to help me figure out how to get this worked out.

  Anyone here have any idea how I can get this working?  I 
suppose, when I install gentoo, if I choose the Central European 
set as primary, I may be fine, but no one has had any response to 
that possibility either....

  Meph

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:17:24 -0400 (EDT)

>  At the moment, I'm using pine 4.50 & bash 2.05 (I'll be 
                                 ^^^^

Presumeably you don't mind using an older version which has known 
remote execution security vulnerabilities that allow a remote 
attacker to execute arbitrary code on your system as the user you 
run pine as.  ;o)

pine 4.58 for RHL is on my ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris space 
in src.rpm and i386.rpm format.  Hope this helps.

-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:24:22 +0200 (CEST)

> that possibility either....

*** Hi,

I think you should install ISO-8859-2 fonts in your X, then setup your
terminal (xterm, etc) to use this ISO-8859-2 fonts as default (probably the
best solution is to insert

xterm*VT100*font:-misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-14-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-2

line in your ~/.Xdefaults - you have to use *-iso8859-2 fonts)

The third think is to setup application (pine, w3m, links, lynx) use iso8859-2
(in pine congifuration

character-set                 = ISO-8859-2

)

Then it should work fine.

Bye.

Wolf.