Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> > Until then, I am looking forward to hearing reports from people who have
> > already completely moved their Linux environment to UTF-8, i.e. who run
> > their terminal emulators only in UTF-8 mode all day long. What does
> > still break under UTF-8 and needs to be fixed?
>
> My main problem has been pine. First of all it doesn't pass 0x80-0x9F to
> the terminal, and second it doesn't have automatic charset conversion, so
> I have problems with messages in ISO-8859-x. In short, almost nothing
> works with pine.
slrn is another serious problem.
Many people love it for news reading and don't want to change for something
else.
What is needed is a patch to run it under a utf-8 terminal.
There is a patch to read utf-8 under a iso-8859-1 terminal (only iso-8859-1
characters of course), there's a way to run a separate windows each time a
received message and convert on the fly, by using an adequate entry in
mailcap, but as I was told in german recently when trying to convince utf-8
was a usable choice for the composition of message in german and japanese, all
of this is only "Kr�cken durch die Hintert�r".
I'd love to have time to write such a patch, but I just don't.
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