From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 12:49:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB905156EF for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA05459; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:51 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA14679; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:49 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Black , Iani Brankov Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990314104437.11662.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:44:36PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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