alpine-alpha readers: Jump straight to the (*) footnote if you want to
skip the chatter related to http://bugs.debian.org/414314 .
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Piotr Engelking wrote:
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't understand this request. Why iso-8859-2 and not iso-8859-3,
iso-8859-4, or iso-8859-5?
[ pine uses iso-8859-1, but only as a "better" default than us-ascii ]
"The Posting-Character-Set is used when sending messages. The default
behavior obtained by leaving this variable unset is usually what is
wanted. In that default case, Alpine will attempt to label the message
with the most specific character set from the rather arbitrary set
US-ASCII, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-1, ISO-2022-JP, KOI8-R, and UTF-8.
For example, if the message is made up of only US-ASCII characters, it
will be labeled US-ASCII. Otherwise, if it is all ISO-8859-15
characters, that will be the label. If that doesn't work the same is
tried for the remaining members of the list."
And this is the key. I think that (almost) all bytes that are defined in
iso-8859-2 are also defined in iso-8859-1 - this is the classic problem
with non-Unicode character sets.
Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-2 . PINE/Alpine has no way to
figure out which one of these is truly in use (*), so doing this would
have to be done as an end-user preference.
-- Asheesh.
*. They could implement some frightening but sometimes accurate heuristic
like chardet <http://chardet.feedparser.org/docs/faq.html>, but I don't
think they're interested. I'm CC:ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
make sure they're aware of this option.
--
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
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