Re: slrn and UTF-8
Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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| Organization | Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/> |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* Peter J Ross on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 17:32:30 +0100: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:40, Dan H. wrote: >> So what's the deal? Is slrn actually actively supported any more, or will I >> have to look at an alternative newsreader? The homepage seems to be of >> October 2004 vintage; this doesn't look too active any more.. > > Development seems to be slow, but hasn't stopped as far as I'm aware, and the > Debian package is certainly alive. > > For your problem with UTF-8 and messages that use legacy character sets, there > are two possibilities: > > 1. Use the latest CVS version of Slrn. The easiest way to do this on Debian at > present is to install the package from Debian Experimental. > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/news/slrn If you're going for that route (latest CVS of Slrn compiled against S-Lang 2) there's a fine but undocumented setting for outgoing charsets in slrnrc (example for western European): charset Outgoing "iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15,windows-1252,utf-8" A bit like $send_charset in Mutt, only you don't need "us-ascii" as first item of this list. > There will still be issues with messages that don't declare a character set or > are otherwise defective, but most problems with umlauts and other non-ASCII > characters ought to be solved. See sig ;) c -- Make Slrn newsreader read MIME (Python required): <http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/SlrnMime/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/