Re: How to get tin pager to display 'extended' characters

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:22:36PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> I don't think it's the undeclared_charset issue as I was trying to
> look at posts with extended characters in that I'd posted myself with
> a valid ISO-8859-1 character set.

but as tin didn't know (unset LC_TYPE) what is your local charset it
assumes us-ascii and replaces all 8bit chars in your posting with ?.
but you should have seen an errormessage like the following when posting:

|Warning: Posting is in US-ASCII and contains characters which are not
|         in your selected MM_NETWORK_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1.
|         These characters will be replaced by '?' if you post this
|         article unchanged. To avoid garbling your article please either
|         edit it and remove those characters or change the setting of
|         MM_NETWORK_CHARSET to a suitable value for your posting via the
|         M)enu option.

(*hmmm* the error-message is misleading (as it is too generic and usualy
handles the case where the locales are ok, but the selected
MM_NETWORK_CHARSET doesn't hold all the chars from the locale charset)
in this case, it should read like:

Posting will be in US-ASCII, but your article contains characters which are
not in this charset. These characters will be replaced by '?' if you post
this To avoid garbling your article please either edit it and remove those
characters or change the setting of your locales.

urs
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