On 26/04/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/25/08 21:13, s. keeling wrote: > > Sorry for the thread snatch. > > > > I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway > > linux.debian.user. I've seen this before and I'm wondering if there's > > anything I can do about it, other than going utf-8 myself (I've no > > need for it (I think)). > > > > ---------------------------------- > > Bipin Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> ------=_Part_7962_22139442.1209161466138 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > >> Content-Disposition: inline > >> > >> > T24gRnJpLCBBcHIgMjUsIDIwMDggYXQgMTo1OCBQTSwgR2lsbGVzIE1vY2VsbGluIDxnaWxsZXMu > >> > bW9jZWxsaW5AZnJlZS5mcj4Kd3JvdGU6Cgo+IExlIEZyaWRheSAyNSBBcHJpbCAyMDA4IDE1OjUw > > ---------------------------------- > > What's the subject & timestamp of the message? I retain all mails, > so I should be able to find it. > > > Nothing in this mail is readable here, other than its headers and > > those Content-* lines. > > > > Is this just another reason for me to ignore posts from gmail, or is > > there anything I can do about it? I'm installing metamail now, but > > that's just a shot in the dark. > > > > Etch, slrn 0.9.8.1pl1. .slrnrc: > > > > set charset isolatin > > compatible_charsets us-ascii,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15,utf-8 > > > > ~/.profile: > > > > export LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > export LC_COLLATE=C > > > > (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ locale > > LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15 > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_TIME="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_COLLATE=C > > LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_PAPER="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_NAME="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.ISO-8859-15" > > LC_ALL= > > > > I have generated utf-8 locales on this thing, but I don't use them (I > > can't read/write/understand anything but English). slrn does well > > with many foreign chars, but every once in a while it hits complete a > > brick wall on some posts, and I haven't been able to nail it down yet. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > * the gateway's currently reporting it's down for maintenance. >
Why are you against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is no other disadvantage, and even the diskspace arguement doesn't count for much unless your drive is mostly uncompressed text files. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?