Re: slrn for Dummies??

On 2007-05-29, Kees de Koster <keesdekoster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If it's the RFC 2047 issue I don't know, I did read it but can't
tell you, on the same system I did install a tin package from the
repo and without any adjustments from me the accents are proper
displayed so I assume it's a slrn issue.

Poor handling of 8-bit character sets is a known issue with slrn
(they even talk about it on their web-site), among other annoying
issues. There's nothing much better outside Windows though.

--
Chris Game

By God, for a moment there it all made sense...
.

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