[Alpine-info] Alpine converts text attachments badly (was "from a user who only speaks ascii")

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:


> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, M.RossARR wrote:

> 

> > But the followup message from Mike messed up the characters as I see 

> > in the quote below - question marks. Mike's message also triggers a 

> > notice that he is sending out ISO-8859-15 character set email! Not 

> > UTF-8!

> 

> Here's something I don't get:

> 

> $ grep character-set .pinerc

> character-set=ISO-8859-1

> display-character-set=UTF-8

> # used for the display-character-set.

> keyboard-character-set=

> posting-character-set=

> unknown-character-set=UTF-8

> 

> I don't have any "8859" anywhere in my Alpine configuration when I do 

> "MSC" and search with Ctrl-w, yet the .pinerc shows it above.


character-set is no longer used, just the three specific ones.  
character-set is a PINE relic, IIRC.


>From doc/tech-notes.txt:


_character-set_

 This is now obsolete, replaced by three separate variables: 
_display-character-set_, _keyboard-character-set_, and 
_posting-character-set_. See the section on International Character Sets 
for more details.

Best,
Ben