[Alpine-info] UTF-8 test message for your viewing (dis?)pleasure

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Marc Glisse wrote:


:) On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

:) 

:) > The file displayed below looks pretty sweet on my system now.

:) 

:) Actually, it only looks good with a terminal width of at least 150 

:) characters here. Indeed alpine tends to conservatively assume most 

:) characters have width 2 and wraps line that really don't need it. Note 

:) that when I say "alpine", the problem could be anywhere from the 

:) terminal to the font or the C library...


The problem is the c-client library. The problem is that that library 
assumes that some characters have width 2, as opposed to width 1. This 
causes several problems
 
  * When viewing the message, lines wrap early,

  * when forwarding a message, certain lines display spaces in place of 
    the correct characters, and asking Alpine to redraw such messages, 
    after some editing changes the displayed position of the characters.

I consider this to be a big problem. Luckily, this is not a big problem 
for people in this mailing list. I wonder if there is anyone that skipped 
using Alpine because of this...

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/