This patch allows you to change the character set of an e-mail so that it won't go with character set "X-UNKNOWN". This is not a problem of pine, but some other mailers do not understand this character set and therefore make it impossible to read your message. What this feature allows you to do is to change your character set whenever you are sending it to another predefined set, say ISO-8859-1, independently of the fact that your message may or may not be written with characters of that set. If you always write in the same character set you should define it to be that character set. If you leave it undefined, nothing will change and pine will continue sending messages with the character set "X-UNKNOWN" when it can not find the correct character set.
 

After you apply the patch you have to go to your configuration and define
 

alt-character-set =

Last Updated 18:55:38 PST Sun Nov 12 2000