From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 3:10:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E40D14C1E for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 03:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 2732 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Mar 1999 11:05:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19990317110512.2731.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:05:12 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey Cc: Iani Brankov , Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Presentation format (was: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions) References: <19990313010218.136B315389@hub.freebsd.org> <36EB039D.C59CCC5D@bulinfo.net> <19990314104437.11662.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com> In-reply-to: <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com> of Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:49 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> What about: > >> > >> - You sent a message in wrong language. # ??? > > > > To that you could well add: > > > > - You used a character set other than us-ascii > > > > Lots of people filter out (or just don't read) stuff that is > > posted to English-language mailing lists when it is sent in > > weird character sets. > > Hmm. It's about time that English speakers started to use ISO 8859-1 > or 8859-15 (I think). -15 appears to be an update of -1, but I don't > have much in the way of information. Anyway, these sets includes a > lot of symbols that are used in Western Europe, including currency > symbols such as £ and accented letters such as é and ö. If these > don't display correctly on your screen, you should check what fonts > you are using. I believe it works automatically under X, but if > you're still using the vts you'll have to load a font such as > /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt. That's a reasonable suggestion. The real point I was making was not so much to insist on us-ascii (although it does perfectly well for an English or Usanian language mailing list) -- but to suggest that there is little point in using character sets that have no correlation with the languages used in -questions. It remains possible that people who need this information might not be able to read the "How to" document anyway ... -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message