Re: Postings with no charset, can one set a default?

On 2008-03-19 09:43:22 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> If a posting has no charset indicated in the headers I'm seeing ? for
> accented characters and such, whereas if the charset is set correctly
> I see the correct characters and symbols.  Is there a way to set a
> default charset that tin will use if none is set?  I suspect that
> setting a default of iso-8859-1 would probably make most of the ? I
> see disappear as in the main I'm looking only at french and, more
> rarely, other European languages.

Put something like the following into your ~/.tin/attributes:
,----
| scope=*
| undeclared_charset=iso-8859-1
`----
You can also use a different scope if you need other values for
some other groups, e.g.:
,----
| scope=tw.*
| undeclared_charset=big5
`----

Michael