Re: [newcode]Encoding Settings

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:16:29PM +0800, Tony Winslow wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to tin.
> 
> How can I change the encoding of a particular group?
> For example, the group I'm visiting uses GBK (Simplified Chinese),
> how can I configure tin properly so that I can read that group?

as documented in tin(5)/tin(1):
[tin(5)]
| /etc/tin/attributes
| ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes
|
|       The  group  attributes files may be used to override some global
|       settings from ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc on a per group
|       basis.  Order  is important as last match counts; this allows to
|       refine  attributes  for   narrowed   scopes.   Note   that the
|       scope=<grouplist> line has to be specified before the attributes
|       are specified for that list. All attributes are set to a reason-
|       able  default so you only have to specify the attribute that you
|       want to change. All toggle  attributes  are  set  by specifying
|       ON/OFF.  Otherwise, they function exactly as their global equiv-
|       alents. The following group attributes are available:
|
|       scope  This changes the list of groups to which  the attributes
|              that  follow  will  be applied. See the section NEWSGROUP
|              LISTS & WILDCARDS in tin(1) for the types of pattern that
|              can be used here.
[...]
|       mm_network_charset
|              Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name 
|
|       undeclared_charset
|              Assume (broken) articles without MIME charset declaration
|              have  this  charset - default is US-ASCII. This attribute
|              works only on systems with working iconv(3), others might
|              have      to      compile      tin(1)     with --dis-
|              able-mime-strict-charset.

[tin(1)]
|     MM_NETWORK_CHARSET (mm_network_charset)
|        Charset  used  for  posting  and MIME headers; replaces mm_charset.
|        Conversion between mm_network_charset and local charset (determined
|        via  nl_langinfo(3))  is done via iconv(3), if this function is not
|        available on your system this option is disabled and  you  have to
|        use mm_charset instead. mm_network_charset is limited to one of the
|        following charsets:
|            US-ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, KOI8-{R,U,RU}
|            EUC-{CN,JP,KR,TW},    ISO-2022-{CN,CN-EXT,JP,JP-1,JP-2}, Big5,
|            UTF-8
|        Not all values might work on your  system,  see  iconv_open(3) for
|        more  details.  If it's not set, the value of the environment vari-
|        able $MM_CHARSET is used. US-ASCII or compile-time default is used
|        in case neither of them is defined.

urs
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