There is a patch (http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/iconv/4.58/pine-iconv-7e.patch) for the current version of Pine that adds support for UTF-8 to this MUA. I think it's a good idea to make it one of the default patches. It can be really annoying to read UTF-8-encoded mail with a client that doesn't support UTF-8.
ok, I'm on it if no one beats me to it.
Any progress with this one? It should be pretty simple - just include the patch into the ebuild..
Ok, I have a new pine ebuild that contains a bunch of additions including this one. I'll put it in shortly (as soon as the maildir stuff is sorted out).
Added to pine-4.58-r3.
the patch in pine-4.58-r3 isn't the one suggested by SpanKY. the newest version would be: http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/iconv/4.58/pine-iconv-8k.patch.gz
Created attachment 23733 [details] suggested new ebuild this one really adds UTF-8 support to pine
I totaly agree with comments #5 and #6 -- I did not find this bug in the first place and added exactly the same patch to my test-version (and removed the *singlebyte*-patch). I use that version for 3 weeks now and did not notice any problems so far. it seems that a new version was released (http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/iconv/ 8m in the 4.58 directory) -- no experience with there, sorry. can we reopen this bug to add propper UTF-8 support to pine?
Created attachment 93127 [details] added utf-8 support patch, conditioned by "unicode" use flag When "unicode" flag is set, this ebuild applies the utf-8 patch from http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/FAQ.html instead of collection of Chappa's patches (the utf-8 patch already includes them). Unfortunately, the utf-8 patch is not versioned, and, therefore, has to be versioned externally (similarly to how it's done with Chappa's patches), which I did not do.
looks like this was never fixed
I've recently found UTF-8 patches for pine: http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/FAQ.html There is a big patch integrated with Eduardo Chappa's patches. I changed an ebuild to use this one instead of *-chappa-all.patch and the only thing that didn't work was pine-4.61-subjectlength.patch. After removing it pine compiled cleanly and seems to work without problems. Could this patch be included in the next revision of pine?
Looks like Pine has gone away, to be replaced by Alpine. "IMPORTANT:Development of this patch has been discontinued in favour of the successor of pine, called Alpine which is licensed under the Apache license and is thus Free Software. The public beta test of Alpine has started in November 2006, and it supports UTF-8. Instead of this patch, I encourage everybody to try the latest beta of Alpine and report any bugs on the Alpine mailing list. " Alpine is in Sunrise, and bug 229947 is a request to formally retire Pine and replace it with Alpine.
