RE: CHARSET considerations

[Laurence Lundblade <lgl@nwnet.net>]

Yes, I think that's exactly right.  We can probably adjust the comment in
the .pinerc for now.  In the long term the .pinerc needs a lot of good
error checking.  It just hasn't been done because limited resources. 

LL


On Mon, 17 May 1993, Mark Crispin wrote:

> Hi Laurence -
> 
>      Perhaps all that is needed is a list in the system .pinerc file of all
> the valid charsets, and not let the user set her charset to one that is not in
> the list.  So, perhaps Pine could have US-ASCII, ISO-2022-JP, and the various
> ISO-8859-x sets wired in as an initial list, and the system file specify
> additional valid sets?
> 
>      The concern is to avoid letting users do things like set it to things
> such as ``Latin-1'' or ``ASCII'' or similar bogons...
> 
>      What do you think?
> 
> -- Mark --
>