- From: Laurence Lundblade <lgl@nwnet.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 09:12:46 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, scs@adam.mit.edu, TROTH@ricevm1.rice.edu, pine-info@cac.washington.edu, dan@ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu, scs@adam.mit.edu
Yes, I think that's exactly right. We can probably adjust the comment in the .pinerc for now. In the long term the .pinerc needs a lot of good error checking. It just hasn't been done because limited resources. LL On Mon, 17 May 1993, Mark Crispin wrote: > Hi Laurence - > > Perhaps all that is needed is a list in the system .pinerc file of all > the valid charsets, and not let the user set her charset to one that is not in > the list. So, perhaps Pine could have US-ASCII, ISO-2022-JP, and the various > ISO-8859-x sets wired in as an initial list, and the system file specify > additional valid sets? > > The concern is to avoid letting users do things like set it to things > such as ``Latin-1'' or ``ASCII'' or similar bogons... > > What do you think? > > -- Mark -- > --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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