OT: Pine Question

OT: Pine Question

[Janina Sajka]

Is there anything I can do to get Pine to shut up about character sets?
I'd like to get messages like the following out of my emails, I'm sick of
hearing them over and over:


    [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Frankly, U of Washington, I don't give a d**m.

Re: OT: Pine Question

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Yep.  Go to pine config from main menu press s then c then w for search
and type the word character.  When you get there add the necessary char
set like iso-xxx or what ever.  once you use that character set you will
not get these messages.


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Is there anything I can do to get Pine to shut up about character sets?
> I'd like to get messages like the following out of my emails, I'm sick of
> hearing them over and over:
>
>
>     [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
>     [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]
>     [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]
>
> Frankly, U of Washington, I don't give a d**m.
>
>
>
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Re: OT: Pine Question

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, but is there some kind of token for "match any string" to stick in
there, or do I have to actually specify every variant of this message
there is. There are a lot of char sets.
i On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Raul A.
Gallegos wrote:

> Yep.  Go to pine config from main menu press s then c then w for search
> and type the word character.  When you get there add the necessary char
> set like iso-xxx or what ever.  once you use that character set you will
> not get these messages.
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Is there anything I can do to get Pine to shut up about character sets?
> > I'd like to get messages like the following out of my emails, I'm sick of
> > hearing them over and over:
> >
> >
> >     [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
> >     [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]
> >     [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]
> >
> > Frankly, U of Washington, I don't give a d**m.
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
>
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Re: OT: Pine Question

[Scott Howell]

I sure wouldn't mind knowing myself. I haven't found a way yet. I wouldn't
use Pine, but I haven't found anything else that does Imap. Oh, no not
cause the messages are annoying, but well other reasons.


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Is there anything I can do to get Pine to shut up about character sets?
> I'd like to get messages like the following out of my emails, I'm sick of
> hearing them over and over:
> 
> 
>     [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
>     [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]
>     [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]
> 
> Frankly, U of Washington, I don't give a d**m.
> 
> 
> 
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> Speakup mailing list
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> 

Re: OT: Pine Question

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

AFAIK, there is no real easy way to get around this one.  Obviously
X-unknown is not a character set and the responsible person should fix
their E-mail client.  Iso-8859-1 is by far the most used one, so this is
the best to have it set to.  The other one I come across is windows-1212.
IMHO, everyone should be using iso-latin-1 unless they regularly need
non-western symbols.

Geoff.

Re: OT: Pine Question

[Janina Sajka]

Geoff:

I agree about the should part. Regretably, the world will never run as it
should.

Just to clarify for myself where this happens--these messages are, in
fact, generated within Pine, are they not? Do you know for sure? Else, I
would think I could do something about this with procmail where a variable
could represent the actual char set number. It's certainly not sufficient
to specify any particular set--there are too many in use to avoid using
some kind of variable expansion.


On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> AFAIK, there is no real easy way to get around this one.  Obviously
> X-unknown is not a character set and the responsible person should fix
> their E-mail client.  Iso-8859-1 is by far the most used one, so this is
> the best to have it set to.  The other one I come across is windows-1212.
> IMHO, everyone should be using iso-latin-1 unless they regularly need
> non-western symbols.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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