[TriLUG] strange chars/formatting in received e-mail

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Lucas Myers wrote:

> Stuff like "â€" is usually a good indicator that something 
> UTF-8 encoded is being misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1.

Hmm. I see.

In the section "Mail and Internet" in

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps

pine is mentioned as _not_ having UTF-8 support. However 
alpine does, but you have to set alpine up and set your term 
to display UTF-8.

Thanks Joe

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