On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? > SB> Also, how do I change my charset? > > Change your locale to one with a different charset, and pray. > > SB> Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X packages used ISO-8859-15 by > SB> default? > > There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's > charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.) > use ISO 8859-1, but there are variant locales that use ISO 8859-15 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.) and other variants that use UTF-8 (fr_FR.UTF8 etc.)
But you might want to use a given charset to display stuff, but use another language for your locales. An example of this is when you have a mail reading program, where you wish to be able to view ISO 8859-1 correctly, but still keep the english localized messages. Friendly, Sven Luther