RE: [MiNT] UTF-8 on MiNT?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 2.1.2000, Julian Reschke <reschke@muenster.de> wrote:

> > > > Can Pine or anything on TOS handle UTF-8 (Unicode 8) encoding?
> > >
> > > I don't know of any mailer with direct UTF-8 support, but as long as
> > > your mailer supports sending a message through an external filter before
> > > being viewed, you can use GNU recode (version 3.5) for that.
> >
> > The question is not what we can send, but what we can receive.
> >
> > Currently, anyone that has upgraded their Outlook package will
> > send in UTF-8 by default.  This means _we_ have to adapt.
> 
> I think you should spend a bit more time reading other
> people's replies... :-)

I have, actually; processing a message tru an external conversion
will only work if the mailbox is local, in which case we can hack
the spool directly and convert any UTF-8 message to a char-set we
handle (Latin9), so we can both read the message _and_ reply to
it. The "external viewer" wrapper trick would not work for that.

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