pine and the char set thing

[Janina Sajka]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Users of speakup often listen to their mail "directly" - i.e.,
> spontaneously, as it is placed on the screen. When that happens,
> you cannot just skip ahead three or four lines to get past those
> char set messages.

One of the more useful features of the DOS screen reader, asap, was it's 
ability to silence a line, but continue speaking beginning at the next 
line. This feature was bound to the shift key, and I got very good at 
tapping shift to help me skim through such text.

In the case of pine, I suspect that the most which could be accomplished 
today is to get rid of the text that always appears, and the text that 
almost always appears. In the former category are the second and third 
lines--the two that say something like "you're using XX charset, and some 
chars may not be presented correctly." It actually does take a few seconds 
to say that text--so there's a few gained. Next, the actual char set is 
most often Windows 1252, so a rule to eliminate that would catch most of 
the annoyances.