Even if the 4.64 version of Pine Reproducible: Always
Sorry for the short description, sadly managed to press return instead of backspace. Pine 4.64 can't display messages written with other character setups as ISO-8859-1 when set it to use UTF-8, to make this happen without using the slow filter options, is to use the bigpatch.diff. It has some of the patches that are used in the current pine ebuilds.
Created attachment 164195 [details] Collection of pine patches, most importantly fixes convertion to UTF-8 to work
Created attachment 164196 [details] An example ebuild that can be used to build a more UTF-8 friendly pine
(In reply to comment #1) > It has some of the patches that are used in the current pine ebuilds. I would ask when was the big patch created. The reason I ask for this is because it is known that bigpatch has had bugs in the "chappa" patch; that is, there is a part that has had bugs. Now the person that originally put this together (Bernhard Kaindl of SuSe), realized that this is hard to maintain, so didn't like updating this patch very much. I am not sure if bigpatch does have or does not have bugs left over. If you want to distribute something, then recreate the patch, integrating the chappa patch and the utf-8 patch. That is not hard to do, but it should be done that way. On the other hand, there is no reason, other than legacy, to keep using Pine today. The successor of Pine is called Alpine, and has utf-8 support, so there is no need to patch it to do this. The developers of Alpine, call it "Pine 5.00", because it is for the most part, Pine. It does feel and look like Pine. So my advice, is to either make sure that bigpatch is up-to-date, or to use Alpine; the latter being the best option, in my opinion.
Yes, it's not easy to keep that big patch up to date and the whole "utf-8" patch should be broken out. The main reason that I don't use alpine is that it hasn't found it's way to the official portage, which leaves me with one option and it's pine.
I have moved to alpine. and maybe should Gentoo automagically move the pine users to use alpine, that way the users will get proper UTF-8 support.
Closing as mail-client/pine is no longer in the tree.
