[Alpine-info] Alpine is converting á to ??

Mike Miller mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu
Mon Dec 1 08:01:15 PST 2008


When I pipe text into Alpine, some characters are replaced with ??. Here
is an explicit example:

$ echo Chavez | perl -pe 's/a/\341/g'
Chávez

$ echo Chavez | perl -pe 's/a/\341/g' | \alpine ""

That opens Alpine where I see this:

Ch??ez

My first thought would be that this is a charset problem. I'm not sure
what I need, but I have these settings:

no-pass-c1-control-characters-as-is,
pass-control-characters-as-is,
quell-charset-warning
character-set=ISO-8859-1
display-character-set=ISO-8859-1
keyboard-character-set=
posting-character-set=
unknown-character-set=ISO-8859-15

I've tried a few things that didn't work, so I'm hoping someone here knows
the trick.

Best,
Mike


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