[Alpine-info] funnies with colours and character sets

[Lucio Chiappetti]

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

(2) colouring index screen

     I have two separate accounts with two .pinerc. I use one to read
     mail and one to read news. I have happily configured the mail one
     (via M S R I) to colour entire lines (not just the STATUS flags)
     differently according to the message being new, normal, important
     or deleted.

     I then tried a similar thing for my news account. In this case I
     just want to colour deleted and new messages. In this account's
     pinerc I have

     Sort Key = (*)  tHread
     Threading Display Style = indent-subject-1
     Threading Index Style = separate-index-screen-except-for-single-messages

     I have also historically  [X] Thread Index Shows Important Color
     although I do not use it.

     Now what happens is that the colouring of the entire lines does not
     apply to the overall thread index screen (the STATUS indicators are
     coloured but the date/from/subject lines are not). If I access a
     thread, the colouring applies to individual lines in the partial index
     screen.

     Shall this be considered a feature ?

(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 ?

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