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

[M.RossARR]

This email uses standard character set UTF-8 per RFC 2130!
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> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> I use to avoid booting M$ I'm not all that sure how to just "USE UTF-8"


Check Pine/Alpine in Setup-Config for Character-Set = UTF-8

These are the important parts of what I received with Joe's message.

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Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED;
    BOUNDARY="1702920797-1297858280-1237662632=:14411"

Parts/Attachments:
   1 Shown   ~136 lines  Text (charset: X-UNKNOWN)
   2 Shown      4 lines  Text
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    [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "UTF-8" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

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I suspect a mix of charsets created it. Jumbled from several
sources. You ain't sending out US-ASCII all the time like you say
Joe. Who knows what you receive or how your system translates it or
to what. A coagulation!


> How do I tell pine {or alpine for when I'm using other linux} to label

> such a message's content as UTF-8 instead of the above???


As I suggested above check Setup-Config for Character-Set = UTF-8

But you may hold messages of various charsets already in folders, &
when you pull one up to forward it, or use it, charsets mix. Then
you send out what Pine/Alpine is setup for like UTF-8, but with
mixed in charsets inside! I suffer the problem due to what I
receive, a cleanup problem due to other Peoples mess.

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