Re: Japanese w/pine

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Jack Morgan (yojack@example.com) wrote:

Jack> How can I read Japanese email in pine? Or is xemacs better?

As long as you have Japanese fonts, current versions of Pine 
(as well as the Japanese-patched Pine 3.96j) can read Japanese,
although they do less well when it comes to Japanese input (3.96j is
OK).  There is a char set encoding in the preferences, you'll want
to set it to iso-2022-jp.

However, both Xemacs and Mutt do a better job of reading Japanese (and
writing it).  Pine's main stength is that it has a pretty good UI,
but it lacks the capabilities of Xemacs and Mutt (and of course, Xemacs
also has a pretty good UI).

Jonathan