Actually, this is because PINE uses the same content-type (in this case
text/html) of the original message in the reply / forwarded message. If the
charset is something different (say 23TEXT like in old versions of Microsoft
Mail, or BIG-5 for mail from .jp / .kr etc) then that charset will be used
for the reply as well.
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] Re: Sharing email with pine & netscape
>
> "Ramasubramanian, Suresh" wrote:
> > However, beware of forwarding a html message (one with no text version
> > attached). PINE will send out your reply in html as well - with ALL the
> > formating badly screwed up.
>
> Is it due to insertion of ">" as the forwarding string, which is also a
> command initiator [tag initiator] in HTML? I wonder.
>
> > Fix - Export to a text file and then read it back into pico :)
>
> So we are ridding ourselves of the >, am I right?
> Then may be changing the ">" to something which is not a part of HTML
> tag related characters could help? Someone try this? [From workplace no
> PINE, NO PICO, NO LINUX and this is a wonderful workplace :-(]
>
> Rohit
>
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