[PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> If I send that same text file to myself as an e-mail attachment, Alpine
> will NOT show -- or even save -- it correctly. (I tried sending the file
> from both a Linux host and from a Mac host; the file was garbled in both
> tests.)

Paul,

   Thanks for taking the time to investigate.

> So my first suspicion is that your text isn't getting the correct MIME
> type, but that's just a guess based on what I'm seeing above.

   That could well be. Since I don't get much Hebrew messages (although
plenty of spam in Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese) it was more a matter of
curiosity than real need.

> Beyond that, I don't have time to track down what's going on.

   Of course not!

Best regards,

Rich