On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, King Beowulf wrote: > I've poked around and discovered that in Slackware 14.2 we have alpine > 2.20. There seems to be a problem with alpine not properly supporting > UTF-8 and so defaults to US-ASCII. Unfortunately, when you then try to > sent line drawing characters, alpine "guesses" and picks a cyrillic char > set.
Hi Ed, This is on my server/workstation running 14.1 and alpine 2.11. Guess the problem has been in alpine for a while. > You may have to use Thunderbird or similar as a work around. Gak! For me, using a GUI for text such as e-mails is analagous to reading commic books ... er, graphic novels ... rather than regular text books. > Also, you can try sending as an attachment (with different extensions). Since I've not before had this issue, and it's not likely that I'll need to send a graphic directory tree again, it's a very low priority. I discovered that I can export the non-sending message to a file, then cancel the oritinal message, start a new one and insert the saved text. Et, woila! UTF-8. Thanks much and I'll let you get back to your more important things. :-) Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
