Re: pine and UTF-8 font, was Re: Links

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:14:19 +0100 (CET), Michael Kuss wrote:

> for those of you who also got screwed by reading and trying to reply
> to the "Links" thread.
> 
> For various reasons, I'm still using pine for reading emails.  My RH80
> installation was done from scratch, but the .pinerc was inherited from
> RH6x.  There, no default font was set, resulting in ISO-8859-1 as the
> default.
> 
> I now changed it to UTF-8, and life is a bit easier now, though not
> perfect.  ISO-8859 stuff after "unreadable" chars is rendered
> unreadable, but at least this applies only for this particular email,
> not for all.

ISO 8859-1 is not a font. It's a character set. UTF-8 is not a font
either. It's a Unicode transformation format which stores (IIRC)
Unicode characters in at least 8-bit.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70518
for more on the Unicode problems with PINE.

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