Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

Richard Loken rlloken at telus.net
Mon Oct 23 10:32:16 CDT 2017


On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:

By gum!  Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed.  It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character
and moved on.

>  I have:
>
> 	LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 	LC_COLLATE=C
>
> as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8...

And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8?

And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't 
have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that.

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