PINE not included in FC2?
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 26 21:22:38 UTC 2004
Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> something that I am curious about. I had installed PINE on my RH9
> system and noticed that it didn't survive the FC2 upgrade. Is there a
> specific reason for that?
Others have mentioned the license issue.
This is actually a serious problem, as I understand it, because
"standard" Pine won't handle UTF-8 encoded messages gracefully. These
are becoming a lot more common. The license issues mean that UTF-8
can't be included in distributed binaries.
James.
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