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upengan78
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:59 pm Post subject: can't read chinese email-alpine[SOLVED] |
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Hi,
Everything works in my alpine on gentoo(amd64) but the chinese language emails. When I open alpine and go into INBOX, I see ????? for that chinese email and when I open that email I see below text. I open alpine inside X using 'Xfce Terminal Emulator'
Subject: ????????
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
???????????????????????????????????A
??????????
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????L
?????
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Why can't I see this email in Chinese characters? Is it problem with alpine or Gentoo fonts?
I haven't set LANG env variable in my shell profile but the Display character language in alpine is set to UTF-8.
Rest of the emails in English work fine.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:02 am Post subject: |
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TBH, the above tells very little.
Far more useful would be i.e. part of the file from the maildir - at least the header and a line or two of the content. |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| VoidMage wrote: | TBH, the above tells very little.
Far more useful would be i.e. part of the file from the maildir - at least the header and a line or two of the content. |
What the OP means is that the OP sees only ? instead of chinese characters. I suspect what the OP is missing is either console fonts for chinese, or the terminal does not support displaying chinese characters, or both.
@upengan78: try urxvt (probably with wide-character support included?) - maybe it will work if you have the fonts installed. Don't ask me what fonts you need; I don't know! There is also a Chinese subforum. You might get better advice there.
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upengan78
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for replying.
I don't know if header is still going to be useful but if so, I will post it later.
I asked the same question to developer of Alpine and reply was,
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In order for UTF-* to work several things must happen.
- Set the enviroment to UTF-8, eg. "setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8" for english.
Do the appropriate one for Chineese. <--------------------------------------------I wonder why I have to change LANG to Chinese, I thought Unicode should take care of this automatically with the use of UTF-8 and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 need not be changed
- Set the screen to display UTF-8.
- set Alpine character set variable to UTF-8. According to what you told
me you already configured this. |
I am using XFCE terminal emulator and bash, so I did
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
I don't know how to do screen to display UTF-8 -> would it mean I have to change locale or use urxvt which is capable of handling UTF-8?
Last thing asked above to set alpine character set has already been done and set to UTF-8.
My current locale is
| Code: | LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL= |
After I set LANG, locale variables change,
| Code: | export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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| Code: | #locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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Actual email content is
| Code: | Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:56:14 -0500
From:
To:
Subject: 理工学院的校友和
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
理工学院的校友和摄政王，前董事会董事会椅子，和大学的伟大的朋友，罗伯特A
·普利兹克，已过世。
“鲍勃是一个平凡的男人和个人所得税的最热心和善意的支持者之一，他的名字是与个人所得税的代名词，说：”总统约翰L
·安德森。
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alpine shows
| Code: | Subject: ����������������������
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������A
�����������������������������
����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������L
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If I use urxvt on XFCE terminal, I can see below from Alpine
| Code: | Subject: 理工学院的校友和
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
理工学院的校友和摄政王，前董事会董事会椅子，和大学的伟大的朋友，罗伯特A
·普利兹克，已过世。
“鲍勃是一个平凡的男人和个人所得税的最热心和善意的支持者之一，他的名字是与个
人所得税的代名词，说：”总统约翰L
·安德森。
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upengan78
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Got it to work in Xfce - terminal.
How? : Well going back to basics and reading 
Followed sections at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml from 3.1 till 3.5, ran startx and opened an X terminal(XFCE-terminal) and alpine.
I can see characters fine and no need to change LANG to chinese for this to work.
sudo cat /etc/env.d/02locale
| Code: | LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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locale
| Code: | LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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Alpine > INBOX >
| Code: | ....
43 Yesterday To: upendra@blah (3K) Fw: 理工学院的校友和 |
Open the email.
| Code: |
Subject: 理工学院的校友和
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
理工学院的校友和摄政王，前董事会董事会椅子，和大学的伟大的朋友，罗伯特A
·普利兹克，已过世。
“鲍勃是一个平凡的男人和个人所得税的最热心和善意的支持者之一，他的名字是与个
人所得税的代名词，说：”总统约翰L
·安德森。
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Chinese fonts were installed earlier , here is what was enabled.
eselect fontconfig list
| Code: | Available fontconfig .conf files ( * is enabled ):
[1] 10-autohint.conf
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
[5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[7] 10-unhinted.conf
[8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf *
[9] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[10] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
[11] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
[12] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
[13] 25-ttf-arphic-ukai-render.conf *
[14] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-bitmaps.conf *
[15] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf *
[16] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[17] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
[18] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[19] 35-ttf-arphic-ukai-aliases.conf *
[20] 35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf *
[21] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[22] 41-ttf-arphic-ukai.conf *
[23] 41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf *
[24] 42-luxi-mono.conf *
[25] 44-wqy-zenhei.conf *
[26] 45-latin.conf *
[27] 49-sansserif.conf *
[28] 50-user.conf *
[29] 51-local.conf *
[30] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[31] 57-dejavu-sans.conf
[32] 57-dejavu-serif.conf
[33] 60-latin.conf *
[34] 64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf *
[35] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[36] 65-khmer.conf
[37] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[38] 66-wqy-zenhei-sharp-no13px.conf *
[39] 66-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf *
[40] 69-unifont.conf *
[41] 70-no-bitmaps.conf *
[42] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[43] 75-ttf-arphic-ukai-select.conf *
[44] 80-delicious.conf *
[45] 90-synthetic.conf *
[46] 90-ttf-arphic-ukai-embolden.conf *
[47] 90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf * |
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