UTF-8 Output Support in Pine
Monday, November 21st, 2005
A few years ago I switched most of my terminals and programs to use UTF-8. For the most part I had no difficulties.
pine is my preferred CLI email client. It understands different character sets and can even convert from UTF-8 into several others (such as ISO-8859-1). However for some reason, they’ve never added the ability to convert from other characters sets to UTF-8. I often receive emails in ISO-8859-1 (it’s the default on many email clients) and many of the special characters ended up garbled, despite pine knowing that UTF-8 is my preferred character set.
I recently checked to see if pine has been updated to support converting into UTF-8 yet. It hasn’t. So I went looking for what solutions others were using. I found a few solutions, one of which I’m using now with good results.
A few years ago I switched most of my terminals and programs to use UTF-8. For the most part I had no difficulties.
pine is my preferred CLI email client. It understands different character sets and can even convert from UTF-8 into several others (such as ISO-8859-1). However for some reason, they’ve never added the ability to convert from other characters sets to UTF-8. I often receive emails in ISO-8859-1 (it’s the default on many email clients) and many of the special characters ended up garbled, despite pine knowing that UTF-8 is my preferred character set.
I recently checked to see if pine has been updated to support converting into UTF-8 yet. It hasn’t. So I went looking for what solutions others were using. I found a few solutions, one of which I’m using now with good results.
