[Alpine-info] bug reports

[Joseph Brennan]

We've got people using an ancient version of PuTTY that does not
handle UTF 8 correctly.  So for now we wanted to configure Alpine
to ISO-8859-1, which we had done for Pine.  It fails because Alpine
and Solaris are fighting over the name of ISO-8859-1.

A user's .pine-debug file shows this error near the top:

nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns unrecognized value="ISO8859-1", using UTF-8 as 
def\
ault

Someone else reported the same problem here...
<http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-March/000478.html>

I noticed that if I define display-character-set=ISO-8859-1 in my own
.pinerc, it gets taken as is, and it works.  If I define it in the
system pine.conf, it gets rewritten into ISO8859-1 and fails.

We're going to work around by getting people to update PuTTY so they
can use UTF 8.  However the Alpine bug remains, for any Solaris host
where ISO-8859-x is preferred.

We are still using Alpine 1.00, so I am describing that.  But I don't
recall seeing word that this was fixed.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology







--On Thursday, May 8, 2008 11:05 AM -0700 Steve Hubert 
<hubert at washington.edu> wrote:


> I think I may be forgetting this case. It sounds like an individual's

> LANG setting (or equivalent) is overriding the default Display Character

> Set set in the global config. That seems correct to me. Can you remind me

> of what I'm missing? Thanks.

>

> Steve

>

> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Joseph Brennan wrote:

>

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>> --On Tuesday, May 6, 2008 1:59 PM -0700 Steve Hubert

>> <hubert at washington.edu>  wrote:

>>

>>> If this is the fix I'm thinking about, just setting Alpine's Display

>>> Character Set to the appropriate ISO-8859-1 or (something other than 1)

>>> value should fix it.

>>

>>

>> Should, but does not.  That is, setting it in the systemwide pinerc

>> does not work.  Setting it in every user's own .pinerc works.  But

>> that's crazy.

>>

>> Joseph Brennan

>> Lead Email Systems Engineer

>> Columbia University Information Technology

>>

>>

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