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How can PC-Pine use different character sets?

April 26, 2017character different pc-pine

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How can PC-Pine use different character sets?

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From: Andreas Prilop Applies to PC-Pine only PC-Pine allows you to use other character sets in your email and news messages than specified in the operating systems. (Reference: http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#char-set) For example, you might use Code Page 852 or Code Page 1250 on your PC, but send and receive messages in ISO-Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2). To do this, you need certain mapping tables. These tables support not only Latin-2, but also Latin-3, Latin-5 (Turkish), Latin-8 (Baltic), Greek, and Cyrillic. Reference informtion can be found at: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/IBM/ ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS//MICSFT/PC/ ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/ Mapping tables can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/coast/win3/mail/pinetabN.zip ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/coast/msdos/network/pinetabN.zip (where N is a number), and o