[Alpine-info] Two Unresolved Issues: Character Set and 'X' in Quoted Response [RESOLVED]

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:


> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

>

>> I also have the following resources in .Xdefaults

>> 

>> URxvt.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1

>> URxvt.boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1

>

>  Those two lines appear to do the trick.

>

>  I downloaded the UTF-8 demo text file and it displays properly in a 

> virtual terminal. So I assume it will also work in alpine.



I think we need a FAQ page, or do we already have one?

There was a pretty extensive discussion of this issue a couple of years 
ago, or so.  It took me forever to figure out my problems.  It turned out 
that I needed the right Alpine settings, the right system settings, the 
right terminal and the right fonts.

One of my first big mistakes was using rxvt instead of urxvt -- I could 
never succeed with rxvt no matter what I changed on the system, but I had 
no idea about that until someone here told me.  The benefit of rxvt was 
supposed to be that it used less memory than xterm, but I did some 
comparisons and wasn't finding a difference, or maybe xterm was actually 
doing better on memory than urxvt.  Anyway, I've been using xterm on 
Ubuntu and it has been fine.

Mike