On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:55 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: > > I generally use PINE.... > > > > {researches a bit} Hmmm. It only appears to happen when non-ASCII > > characters are in the message I'm replying to. > > OT: Seeing how you seem to have some passing acquaintance with ASCII > character set issues, I thought I would ask if you are familiar with > whatever 'character' problem causes me to see a pair of displayed > characters that look like the graphic box 'T' character, followed by the > letter 'a', at various places in my e-mail when I use Pine via this simple > 'telnet' client on Vista? > > I know it has something to do with my 'terminal type' settings, because > I don't get this problem in my Win98 'Hyperterminal'. But it only occurs > in mails that come (you guessed it) from certain Outhouse mail clients. > Is there a character sequence that I could possibly 'translate' out of the > e-mail before I view it in telnet? > Its beem a while since I've used a MS OS, but it might have something to do with Win98 using the old DOS codepages while Vista does something completely different by default. A poke round 'terminal type' settings looking for Win 98/DOS codepage emulation or asking on the relevant forum(s) may be useful.
Martin