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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:07:37 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject:   Re: Andrey's name in Russian (Was: abuse and the -stable...)
Message-ID:  <yGvuj-mGr3@ache.dialup.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199601150854.JAA10949@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch at Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:54:04 %2B0100 (MET)
References:  <199601150854.JAA10949@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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In message <199601150854.JAA10949@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes:

>As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote:
>> 
>> >BTW: What do I have to do over here so I can read your name in Russian ?
>> 
>> You need RFC 1152 MUA which knows about KOI8-R font and screen font itself.
>> Elm from ports fits in that category.

>Does it also allow for a temporary change of the character set?

>E.g., i'm normally composing all my messages in ISO-8859-1, 8bit
>encoding, but would like to answer just your single mail in Russian,
>and hence have to modify the `charset' for this mail to KOI8-R.
>This would be great.

Yes, it is tuneable via elmrc, you can switch displaycharset &
charset parameters between ISO-8859-1 & KOI8-R.
Maybe sometimes I'll implement changing them in elm Options menu...

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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