[TFN-help] Re: PROBLEM REPORT

[Claude Latremouille]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 root@torfree.net wrote:
>
> > Submitted from your form: http://www.torfree.net/problems/ReportForm.html
> > (mailed by your Web Page: /problems/thanks.html on www.torfree.net)
> >
> > Problem Date/Time: 2002/04/26  09:27
> > TFN User-ID/Name:  claudel@torfree.net
> > Session Type:      Text
> > Problem:           Ever since yesterday, when the new PINE was placed on line,
> > it is no longer possible to have French-language articles
> > properly encoded-decoded at the receiving end. Something
> > was changed in the configuration which makes this happen.
> >
>
> [The characer set might have been compiled into the old copy of Pine; I
> didn't change the config file.]
>
> I have now changed the character set in the system configuration file
> to ISO-8859-1.
>
> If it still doesn't work, try changing the character set in your own
> configuration (M-S-C), and look for "character-set".
>
> Possible values include ISO-8859-x (x is a number from 1 to 9),
> LATIN1, and probably others. A web search for character sets will
> dredge up more information.

Thanks Chris, but I already was using ISO-8859-1 in the
character set in my PINE configuration.

It would seem that you would need to enable another
feature of PINE to allow the proper coding-encoding
of 8 bit characters in the new version of PINE.

When looking at the help menu of a particular option I was
already using prior to the change, I came upon something
which you might have to enable so as to allow the system
to code-decode these characters properly.

The option I was using is called "enable-8bit-esmtp-
negotiation" and the option mentioned is "Extended SMTP
(ESMTP) with an extension called "8BITMIME".

As I do not know what these mean, all I can say is that,
before the change, my configuration worked and now, it does
not.

E-mail seems to decode properly, but News does not anymore.

Claude Latrémouille

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