On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:09:49PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 15:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:58, Tom wrote: > > > During locales setup I generate en_US ISO-8859-1 and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, > > > and set my default to "en_US". > > > > > > I'm a dumb american so I haven't done anything else special. I want to > > > be able to see western european characters; I can't read chinese or > > > hebrew but it would be nice to at least see it. Is there anything > > > obvious and simple I can do to "turn on" such features? > > > > 1) Most GUI applications, such as Galeon, will properly display all UTF > > characters. The problem comes in the fact that a lot of font sets do not > > have full UTF characters. This would be why you get the odd character > > codes most of the time. > > Also keep in mind that especially asian people do not use UTF8 as encoding but their > local one (SJIS, Big5, GB2312, etc.). > These ones are not compatible with UTF8 and you will only see garbage even if you > have the right fonts installed. > For them to view in emails you have to use a mailclient which supports all these > charsets and can change between them on the fly (like K-Mail does), and/or use a > multi-charset taerminal, like mlterm where you can also change the encoding on the > fly. But I don't know how mutt reacts on that. > European users mostly use ISO8859-1 or -15 which contains the Euro sign. >
What I don't understand is, a lot of the European developers will send an email with what is obviously a lowercase-grave-accent-e, which is clearly supported by my fonts, but it shows up as ? in mutt (and gnome-terminal, which I've set up for ISO8859-1). Some of the german characters are a bit more unusual, but all these fonts display OK at the console, just not in X. (Haven't reading European characters in Mutt at console). How come I can't see just the basic extended ASCII things? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]