Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90661
pine doesn't show author and title of mail in the list of mail menu
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: when i list list of mail from time to time pine doesn't show for one or two mail no author and no title whereas they exist in the mail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pine-4.44-18 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. launch pine 2. Select your inbox 3. Actual Results: i don't have all the author and title of mail. In these lines i have just the date of mail that could be incorrect Expected Results: i would like to have all the author and the subject of the mail Additional info:
PINE is not unicode compatible, and Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9 default to using unicode locales such as en_US.UTF-8 and other UTF-8 locales in all installations. Any text mode application running in a UTF-8 locale which does not understand UTF-8 sequences can not display them. There are other similar problems with different encodings being mixed, such as email in ISO8859-15 with foreign characters being displayed to a UTF-8 terminal and being interpreted as UTF-8 instead. The typical visual results when an application is using one encoding, and the terminal and other software using another encoding are screen corruption and "garbage" displayed on screen. Other typical results are random cursor behavior, dissappearing characters and other visual oddities. With applications which support UTF-8, there is no problem, as the application uses the proper encoding that the terminal understands. For applications like pine however, which do not understand UTF-8, they interpret the encoding incorrectly as they simply do not understand it. Technically speaking, this is not a bug, but is rather simply a feature lacking from pine and many other text mode applications. Lack of UTF-8 support in particular. The reason it appears to be a bug, is because pine is being started up in an environment that it does not support. You must start pine and use pine only in a locale encoding which it understands, such as ISO-8859-1 or ISO8859-15 or some other supported 8 bit locale. To do this, run pine with: "LANG=en_US pine" or in your case it might perhaps be: "LANG=fr_FR pine" instead. Alternatively, you can disable unicode system wide if you prefer by setting the system default locale to be non unicode. set LANG=fr_FR in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and reboot. If after trying these changes, you still encounter problems, you should seek technical support on the University of Washington's pine-info mailing list to try and find other possible workarounds for this problem. While annoying, it is important to note that these types of problems will exist as long as pine lacks unicode support. If you still have problems after this, please report the problem directly to the University of Washington who produces pine, so that they can investigate the issue further and hopefully fix it in a future release. Please update this report with your results after trying my suggestions. You may also wish to note that pine has been deprecated from Red Hat Linux, and will be removed from a future release of the operating system.
okay i use the first solution to modify the LANG parameter before launching pine and it works quite well Thanks for the explanation
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91232 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.