Steve: The problem is that this isn't enough. Pine informs you that the incoming message is encoded in Bill Gates' Windows 1252, but "You're using iso 8859(1).," and "some characters might be represented incorrectly. I have not found a simple way to quell that Pine generated message. I believe one would need to write a filter for each of those three lines of Pine text. My procmail script idea is simpler, but certainly nastier. On the other hand, if you don't see the mail, you don't get the stress. On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > 3. Another deal is the character sets. I sure wish pine could offer an > option to turn this off. If as many people as possible can do this, set > your default character set to iso-8859-1. If everyone does this, we won't > get those three bothersome lines at the top of the message. I do realize > there are international folks who lagitimately use other char sets but at > least the windows-12343 or whatever would go away. > > Just some ideas. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
