[Alpine-info] bug reports

[Steve Hubert]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Mike Miller wrote:


>> Part of the price of backwards compatibility with pine. You want

>> 

>> display-character-set=ISO-8859-1

>

>

> Right!  That did it.  Things suddenly look much better without all the  

> characters all over the place.  Thanks, Steve.

>

> I shouldn't have stopped searching after I hit "character-set=".  Is 

> display-character-set a new setting in Alpine?  I guess it wasn't in Pine a 

> few years ago if ever.


It is new. Might I suggest you use Setup/Config instead of editing the 
config file directly? From there you can see lots of useful Help text, as 
well.

Steve