Re: can't write nor display accents characters

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Dan Hatton wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>
>>   The problem with accents just appeared after moving to alpine. As I
>>   said, I fixed it, at last, by setting iso-8859-1 in .pinerc, but
>>   alpine is supposed to be unicode compliant, and it seems it is not,
>>   as utf-8 doesn't work.

I'm also experiencing funnies with accented characters in alpine (not in 
most mail from the majority of correspondents which do not use them but 
occasionally).

I start (al)pine in an rxvt with -fn 9x15 (after that I often use control 
keys to expand the font a bit).
In the .pinerc I use to read my mail I set
Display Character Set iso-8859-15

> settings to get xterm to display unicode.  Since you like 9x15 bold,
> you could try the following,
> XTerm*font: -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1

Just tried -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO10646-1 
(which I got from an earlier mail of yours, and has a good size) in 
another account I use to read Usenet news (where it is more likely to find 
odd characters). I tried to reset the Display Character Set in THAT 
.pinerc to default (which should be UTF8) but in most cases I see funny 
characters. If I reset to iso-8859-1 I see correctly the characters in 
message which announce them to be  iso-8859-1, but not those which it 
finds X-UNKNOWN.

Apparently alpine does not accept iso-10646-1 as Display Character Set.

I also tried to explicitly setenv LANG en_US.UTF8, but seems to have no 
effect.

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