On Fri, 23 May 2003, Jungshik Shin wrote: > > Given the reality that major web mail services (hotmail, yahoo, etc) > don't work well with UTF-8, we have to offer an easy way to change > the MIME charset of outgoing emails *in the composition window* without > affecting the global default MIME charset for outgoing emails that can > be set in the configuration menu.
There is a patch which does something into this direction: http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/char_set.html >From the page: ------------------ Change your character set when sending mail This patch allows you to change the character set of an e-mail so that it won't go with character set "X-UNKNOWN". This is not a problem of pine, but some other mailers do not understand this character set and therefore make it impossible to read your message. What this feature allows you to do is to change your character set whenever you are sending it to another predefined set, say ISO-8859-1, independently of the fact that your message may or may not be written with characters of that set. If you always write in the same character set you should define it to be that character set. If you leave it undefined, nothing will change and pine will continue sending messages with the character set "X-UNKNOWN" when it can not find the correct character set. After you apply the patch you have to go to your configuration and define alt-character-set = ------------------ This patch is aganst pinee 4.10, so it would need to be updated. There is also a newer patch which works in the same area: http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/reply.html >From the page: ------------------ This patch adds a configuration option called "alternate-reply-menu", which when activated allows you to override and set values for configuration options that otherwise are not possible to override. (e.g. you may have set the option to strip signatures, but for the message you are answering you would like not to do that) The way this feature works is as follows. Initially you get the question if you want to include the message, and in the menu you will see several options, each option is accompanied by some text explaining what will happen if you press RETURN to continue. ... ------------------ Alternat Character sets could be added there as well. Bernd PS: I fixed some severe bugs (including a segfault) fixed and it should appear at http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/ shortly. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
