
charset
-------

   Type: string
   Default: (unset)

   If you set this variable to the character set your terminal is using,
   slrn will try to map Latin 1 characters to your local charset, so that
   they are correctly displayed. Also, your own postings are converted to
   Latin 1, so that others can read your postings.

   If unset, the default depends on the compile time setting
   DEFAULT_CHARSET_NAME in ``charmaps.h'' which is set automatically.
   Valid values are:

   ibm850
          is the default on OS/2 and Windows,

   NeXT
          is the default on NeXT machines,

   isolatin
          is the default on all other systems and does no recoding,

   koi8
          also does no recoding, as users of KOI-8 are expected to have
          the correct font installed.

   ibm737
          converts from and to Latin 7 (Greek);

   ibm852
          converts from and to Latin 2 (east European);

   This variable will only have an effect if ``character mapping'' is
   enabled at compile time (default). You can query this by calling slrn
   --version from your shell prompt.

-- 
(C) Matthias Friedrich <mafr@topmail.de> and Thomas Schultz <tststs@gmx.de>.
The complete manual can be found at <htp://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/>.
