This patch allows you to write many kind of accents in pine and pico. You can write characters like á, or ç, or ü, etc. Each character is introduced using a consistent combination of keystrokes. The first keystroke is always "^\". Then you write the kind of accent you want to write and finally the letter over which you want the accent to be written, so á would be written ^\'a. Also you can write ¿ and ¡ using the keystrokes ^\? and ^\! respectively.
 
Note that you need to set your character-set variable to a value different than US-ASCII (for example, you can set it to ISO-8859-1), otherwise this patch will not work (thanks to Haroon Rafique by suggesting to add this paragraph).
 
The following is the complete list of characters added in this patch:
 

• áéíóúÁÉÍÓÚýÝ (press ^\' char)
• àèìòùÀÈÌÒÙ (press ^\` char)
• äëïöüÄËÏÖÜÿ (press ^\" char) (the ÿ character was suggested by Andreas Prilop)
• âêîôûÂÊÎÔÛ (press ^\^ char)
• ãÃõÕñÑ (press ^\~ char)
• åÅ (press ^\o char)
• çÇ (press ^\, char)
• ¿¡ (press ^\ inverted char)
• ß (press ^\s) (suggested and patched by Chuck Durfee)
• £ (press ^\l or ^\-l)
• ø (press ^\o/ or ^\ / o)
• ªº (press ^\- char)
• °¹²³ (press ^\^ number)
• æ Æ (press ^\a e)
• ©® (press ^\o char)

Note: Although pico search style is case insensitive, the patch will always differentiate between á and Á. You can use this behavior to leave "marks" in selected places in your file and return to them later.

Starting in version 4.33 now you can write accents and special characters in the headers of the message if you need to.
 

Note: Pine help says that they don't use the key "^\". In particular this patch as it is can not be part of the distribution of pine. I may end up putting this patch and the one below together as one feature (that is to say to duplicate the functions of ^J not only to justify, but also to enter accents). In any case I will have to keep separate patches if I do that.

Last Updated 17:20:23 PDT Thu May 29 2003.