[Alpine-info] funnies with colours and character sets

[Steve Hubert]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


> I have happily built Alpine 1.00 on SuSE 9.2 and I'm now enjoying how close 

> it is to good old pine (thanks). I decided to take advantage of the change 

> and finalise a colour configuration (so far I used a monochrome one with 

> pine). I have encountered two little problems with colours and one

> perhaps with character sets.

>

> As baseline I run (al)pine in rxvt, and set the default colour as transparent 

> on transparent (so to use the X resource I used in the past, defined in the 

> alias which starts (al)pine. I then set a number of individual colours here 

> and there with no problem (I use ansi 16 colour)

>

> (1) colouring headers

>

>    in M S K  I can Change the Header-general Color (e.g. I've set it

>    to cyan on transparent)

>

>    but then if I try AddHeader and reply

>     Enter the name of the header field to be added: Subject

>    (are kwd names case sensitive ? do they want a semicolon at end ?)

>    and I try to Change it, the colours are uneditable (locked to

>    transparent/transparent)

>

>    ,,, not that colouring individual header kwds is much important,

>    but I suppose it's worth mentioning


We have not been able to reproduce this problem. If you have a precise 
recipe that seems to do it for you, please let me know. (Field names are 
case insensitive, colon can be at the end or not.)


> (2) colouring index screen


Right, there is no IndexLine coloring in the thread index screen.


> (3) are character set names case sensitive

>

>    I'm rather confused with the unicode and character set stuff. I do not

>    make directly any use of it personally (I have an USASCII keyboard and

>    avoid accented letters, and do not set any locale), although I may

>    occasionally receive messages in "other" character sets, and encounter

>    a good deal of them in newsgroups.

>

>    It looked like that I got the less trouble setting

>    Display Character Set             = iso-8859-1

>

>    But sometimes in news I get a (harmless) warning

>

>    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]

>    [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]

>    [ Some special characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

>

>    Are "ISO-8859-1" and  "iso-8859-1" any different ? I.e. is

>    the name case sensitive ?


I'm surprised by this, it should not be case-sensitive. We can't reproduce 
this, either.

Steve