[gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it if necessary, but I'd like some users feedback. Be happy. -- ~adj~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it if necessary, but I'd like some users feedback. Be happy. -- ~adj~ I did the switch with no big problem, but I regularely receive mail (in French or German) where I have to change the encoding in kmail to get the correct caracters. I don't know if this is rather a problem of the sender or of kmail not identifying the encoding correctly (the setting is set to auto-detect. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? If you have no problems, then just stick with ISO-8859-15. But switching to UTF-8 now, when you have time to deal with any problems, will save you from doing it when it becomes a pressing need for some reason. I regularely receive mail (in French or German) where I have to change the encoding in kmail to get the correct caracters. I don't know if this is rather a problem of the sender or of kmail not identifying the encoding correctly (the setting is set to auto-detect. Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell, KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some autodetection. What exactly these Fallback encoding and Override encoding do in Settings Configure KMail Appearance Message window, I haven't been able to figure out. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell, KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some autodetection. You seem to be right - I've checked on a series of mails and this setting does change - seems to quite often be on autodetect, though... What exactly these Fallback encoding and Override encoding do in Settings Configure KMail Appearance Message window, I haven't been able to figure out. Benno Dunno either. I've tried different choices but it does not ssem to change anything. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
