Normally when reading mail, I run pine in xterm with UTF-8 enabled, and
it works to a certain degree. All output is filtered through iconv(1) in
a simple script based on the message’s character set and converted to
UTF-8 sequences.
Now, if I log onto my machine with a non-UTF-8 terminal program, is it
possible to detect if the terminal emulator understands UTF-8 and
eventually can tell the script (by setting an environment variable) to
convert the output to plain old latin1 instead? I mean something like
this script every message is filtered through:
#!/bin/bash
charset=$1
# (Set $has_utf8 to "1" if UTF-8 capable)
if [ "$has_utf8" = "1" ]; then
iconv -f $charset -t utf-8
else
iconv -f $charset -t iso-8859-1
fi
The place I’d like to place the test is where the comment is. Any hope?
Peace and sunshine,
Øyvind
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