Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>, Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> Cc: Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Presentation format (was: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions) Message-ID: <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990314104437.11662.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:44:36PM %2B1000 References: <19990313010218.136B315389@hub.freebsd.org> <36EB039D.C59CCC5D@bulinfo.net> <19990314104437.11662.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On Sunday, 14 March 1999 at 20:44:36 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >> 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. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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