From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 03:56:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF3116A420 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60013.mail.yahoo.com (web60013.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71DF243D46 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:56:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 49658 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Mar 2006 03:56:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Jv/nk11hxy1M7pfSnbTupZFH6j06tZhfE7/WQDo8sZwefK4wDGWjUkpm2+F233sL1Bg0YHnYYMp1weIjEFfhe5EIkxdZYUIesq017JEunbJLq+kIuyP59TNfu0g7NB4zdG83DnZaBpiV2v94/BEutKMZM1bRq4o2l0QUdHKPYbA= ; Message-ID: <20060301035623.49656.qmail@web60013.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.133] by web60013.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:56:23 EST Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:56:23 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20060301034409.GN23041@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, clue less Subject: Re: French accents test X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:56:25 -0000 --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 27 February 2006 at 0:05:31 -0500, Peter > wrote: > > --- clue less 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