On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:58:12AM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:52:22PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Someone must have solved this problem before, but all the Googling in the > > world isn't helping me so far. > > on my FreeBSD system, which i believe you are using, i managed to get it to > display these characters by setting the locale as Derek pointed out; but, the > values i used for $LANG and $MM_CHARSET are en_GB.ISO8859-1 and ISO-8859-1 > respectively. This is on the FreeBSD web faq/manual i believe where it > explains about localisation. You shouldn't need to set any of the other > locale values - at least i didn't need to but i'm no expert. > Setting a ISO-8859 locale will mostly work but it's not so all encompassing as using UTF-8 so if you can use UTF-8 it's better. ISO-8859 character sets are basically only the 'Roman' character sets of western[ish] Europe. Using UTF-8 will show almost anything, I get to see chinese spam in all its chinese glory sometimes! :-)
-- Chris Green
