Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:56:23 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, clue less <clhuless@yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: French accents test Message-ID: <20060301035623.49656.qmail@web60013.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060301034409.GN23041@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Monday, 27 February 2006 at 0:05:31 -0500, Peter > wrote: > > --- clue less <clhuless@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > >> Does the mailing list improperly strip iso-8859-1 > encoding and render it > >> as unescaped UTF-8? > >> This is a test to see: �����. > > > > I see the proper characters but when I reply in my > yahoo account I get a > > question mark in a black circle for each > character. This is a problem on > > my end no doubt. > > > > Here is a test of my own: éàïÉ > > People, please use the FreeBSD-test mailing list for > this sort of > thing. > > In this case, though, Peter, you're using the wrong > encoding. > According to your message, it was ISO 8859-1. What > you sent looks > more like UTF-8 (and is thus mangled). How do I change over? This seems to happen only when posting using my webmail yahoo account using firefox. Firefox shows ISO 8859-1 in its preferences. I know that I have pcre installed with UTF-8 support. Can this be causing the problem? -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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