Vietnamese Tables for PC-Pine (Windows)
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Use these tables when you work with Windows-1258 fonts on your PC.
Windows-1258 covers Albanian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.


Table      		Character Mapping

iir180 .win		iso-ir-180 -> windows-1258
oir180 .win		iso-ir-180 <- windows-1258
iviscii.win		viscii     -> windows-1258
oviscii.win		viscii     <- windows-1258
identity   		none

ISO-IR-180 is also known as VSCII-2. Contrary to Windows-1258, VSCII-2
and VISCII encode every combination of a vowel with a tone separately.
It is impossible to convert such combinations with Pine mapping tables.
Therefore you will lose the tone marks in incoming messages.


Let's assume that you have Pine and related files in the directory c:\pine.
Then your autoexec.bat should contain the following two lines:
  set iso_to_cp=c:\pine\itable
  set cp_to_iso=c:\pine\otable


(a) To exchange mail in VSCII-2 ("iso-ir-180")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "iso-ir-180";
    copy the file "iir180.win" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "oir180.win" to "c:\pine\otable".

(b) To exchange mail in VISCII ("viscii")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "viscii";
    copy the file "iviscii.win" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "oviscii.win" to "c:\pine\otable".

(c) To exchange mail in Windows Vietnamese ("windows-1258")

    In your Pine configuration, define character-set as "windows-1258";
    copy the file "identity" to "c:\pine\itable";
    copy the file "identity" to "c:\pine\otable".


You see that you have to copy files again whenever you want another
character mapping. This is ridiculous. Write to <pine@cac.washington.edu>
and suggest that they find a more flexible solution!



References
<ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1456.txt>
<ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets>
<ftp://unicode.org/pub/UNIX/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1258.TXT>
<http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#char-set>
<http://www.iso.ch/infoe/agency/2375.html>