Re: can't write nor display accents characters

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

>  This problem has nothing to do with the xterm fonts:
>
>    1/ as I already told, the accents worked with pine, and I didn't
>       change my xterm fonts since more than 10 years.
>    2/ it works with alpine, by setting 8859-1 in .pinerc
>    3/ the accents are displayed correctly  when I do a "cat file" in a xterm
>        window
>    4/ the problem is actually with alpine handling, and not xterm:
>
>       -  with a "wrong" font setting in .pinerc, the mail is sent
>          as plain text,  the accented characters being replaced by ?
>       -  with 8859-1 setting in .pinerc, the mail is mime encoded:

OK, I think you're right, your data "3/" and "4/" rule out my
explanation.  (Although your data "1/" and "2/" _are_ consistent with
the hypothesis I had in mind, namely that some xterm fonts are capable
of displaying iso-8859-1 accented characters, but not of displaying
utf-8 accented characters).

That leaves me all out of ideas...

-- 

Dan
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