OT: Weird characters in Pine

[Charles Gregory <cg...@hwcn.org>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote:
> I generally use PINE....
>
> {researches a bit} Hmmm. It only appears to happen when non-ASCII 
> characters are in the message I'm replying to.

OT: Seeing how you seem to have some passing acquaintance with ASCII 
character set issues, I thought I would ask if you are familiar with 
whatever 'character' problem causes me to see a pair of displayed 
characters that look like the graphic box 'T' character, followed by the 
letter 'a', at various places in my e-mail when I use Pine via this simple 
'telnet' client on Vista?

I know it has something to do with my 'terminal type' settings, because 
I don't get this problem in my Win98 'Hyperterminal'. But it only occurs 
in mails that come (you guessed it) from certain Outhouse mail clients.
Is there a character sequence that I could possibly 'translate' out of the 
e-mail before I view it in telnet?

- Charles

Re: OT: Weird characters in Pine

[Martin Gregorie <ma...@gregorie.org>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:55 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote:
> > I generally use PINE....
> >
> > {researches a bit} Hmmm. It only appears to happen when non-ASCII 
> > characters are in the message I'm replying to.
> 
> OT: Seeing how you seem to have some passing acquaintance with ASCII 
> character set issues, I thought I would ask if you are familiar with 
> whatever 'character' problem causes me to see a pair of displayed 
> characters that look like the graphic box 'T' character, followed by the 
> letter 'a', at various places in my e-mail when I use Pine via this simple 
> 'telnet' client on Vista?
> 
> I know it has something to do with my 'terminal type' settings, because 
> I don't get this problem in my Win98 'Hyperterminal'. But it only occurs 
> in mails that come (you guessed it) from certain Outhouse mail clients.
> Is there a character sequence that I could possibly 'translate' out of the 
> e-mail before I view it in telnet?
> 
Its beem a while since I've used a MS OS, but it might have something to
do with Win98 using the old DOS codepages while Vista does something
completely different by default. A poke round 'terminal type' settings
looking for Win 98/DOS codepage emulation or asking on the relevant
forum(s) may be useful.


Martin