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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Any way to get just-send-8-bit with Pine?
From:       David L Miller <dlm () cac ! washington ! edu>
Date:       1994-08-31 15:55:22
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Pine does not yet support 8BITMIME (as opposed to just-send-8-bit, which Pine
will never support :)

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    dlm@cac.washington.edu  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On 31 Aug 1994, Lea Viljanen wrote:

> University of Helsinki has gone totally 8bit in e-mail and
> news, using ISO Latin1 as the default character set. Now, the 
> only problem is Pine, who wants to code everything written
> in Finnish with QUOTED-PRINTABLE.
> 
> Almost all our mail agents are MIME-capable, so it is not
> all that big of a problem, but we'd like to turn that feature
> off nonetheless. For example, people can't use normal tools
> to access their sent-folders and now with Pine 3.90, all news
> written with Pine to Finnish newsgroups are QP'ed. Which is
> not a good thing since news readers are not that far advanced
> with MIME-support.
> 
> So, is there a simple way to switch QP off and get standard
> 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 
> messages? Or do I have to hack into the code to get this?
> 
> P.S. For e-mail going out of University of Helsinki, we have
>      a swedish program called Emil linked with sendmail to
>      get the QP-encoding for non-8BITMIME hosts.
> 
> -- 
> Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen    I  "Helsinki made Amsterdam seem like the Vatican!"
> Lea.Viljanen@Helsinki.FI  I  "Finnish is based ... on the Turkic languages"
> Computing Centre          I      - More gems from wozzel@aol.com in finet.sex
> 
> 

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