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[nmh] / man / mhshow.man

diff --git a/man/mhshow.man b/man/mhshow.man
index f55fbfe6a4bf71ae2981df5ba049186b6bdb0d23..baafe7e541a43c3602a7f1ff62ea9e261e78cc51 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mhshow.man
+++ b/man/mhshow.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHSHOW %manext1% "May 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHSHOW %manext1% "February 9, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ mhshow \- display MIME messages
 .RB [ \-pause " | " \-nopause ]
 .RB [ \-form
 .IR formfile ]
+.RB [ \-textcharset
+.I charset
+.RB "| " \-notextcharset ]
 .RB [ \-rcache
 .IR policy ]
 .RB [ \-wcache
@@ -321,6 +324,20 @@ switch can be given to tell
 .B mhshow
 to never display parts in parallel.
 .SS "Showing Alternate Character Sets"
+If
+.B mhshow
+was built with
+.IR iconv (3),
+then all text/plain parts of the message(s) will be displayed
+using the character set of the current locale.  This character
+set can be overridden with the
+.B \-textcharset
+switch.  To convert text parts other than text/plain, or if
+.B mhshow
+was not built with
+.IR iconv ,
+an external program can be used, as described next.
+.PP
 Because a content of type text might be in a non-ASCII character
 set, when
 .B mhshow
@@ -328,15 +345,15 @@ encounters a \*(lqcharset\*(rq parameter for
 this content, it checks if your terminal can display this character
 set natively.
 .B mhn
-checks this by examining the environment
-variable
-.BR $MM_CHARSET .
-If the value of this environment variable is equal
+checks this by examining the current character set defined by the
+.IR locale (1)
+environment variables.
+If the value of the locale character set is equal
 to the value of the charset parameter, then
 .B mhshow
 assumes it can
-display this content without any additional setup.  If this environment
-variable is not set,
+display this content without any additional setup.  If the locale is not
+set properly,
 .B mhshow
 will assume a value of \*(lqUS-ASCII\*(rq.
 If the character set cannot be displayed natively, then
@@ -379,29 +396,24 @@ needed beforehand.
 Note that many pagers strip off the high-order bit or have problems
 displaying text with the high-order bit set.  However, the pager
 .B less
-has support for single-octet character sets.  The source
-to
-.B less
-is available on many ftp sites carrying free software.
-In order to view messages sent in the ISO-8859-1 character set using
+has support for single-octet character sets.  For example, messages
+encoded in the ISO-8859-1 character set can be view using
 .BR less ,
-.PP
-put these lines in your
-.I \&.login
-file:
+with these environment variable settings:
 .PP
 .RS 5
 .nf
-setenv LESSCHARSET latin1
-setenv LESS "-f"
+.ta \w'%F  'u
+LESSCHARSET latin1
+LESS        -f
 .fi
 .RE
 .PP
-The first line tells
+The first setting tells
 .B less
 to use the ISO-8859-1 definition for
 determining whether a character is \*(lqnormal\*(rq, \*(lqcontrol\*(lq,
-or \*(lqbinary\*(rq.  The second line tells
+or \*(lqbinary\*(rq.  The second setting tells
 .B less
 not to warn you
 if it encounters a file that has non-ASCII characters.  Then, simply
@@ -599,6 +611,7 @@ is checked.
 ^moreproc:~^Default program to display text/plain content
 .fi
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IR iconv (3),
 .IR mhbuild (1),
 .IR mhl (1),
 .IR mhlist (1),
@@ -611,6 +624,7 @@ is checked.
 .RB ` \-nocheck '
 .RB ` \-form\ mhl.headers '
 .RB ` \-pause '
+.RB ` \-notextcharset '
 .RB ` \-rcache\ ask '
 .RB ` \-noserialonly '
 .RB ` \-wcache\ ask '