Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Jan 2005 17:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-06 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 06 January 2005 05:25, Miark wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:16:40 -0500, Carroll wrote: æ, ø and å or even the Euro-symbol ___. While I can't speak for David, using KMail 1.7 under KDE 3.3.0-5 I could read all of the Scandinavian characters as well as the Euro symbol in

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-06 Thread Miark
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:45:34 +0100, Kaj wrote: ...citizens of English-speaking countries rarely need anything besides us/uk-ascii Anyway, an easy way to check what charsets are installed is : Open a browser, i.e. Firefox. Select View --Character Encoding. Ah ha! ISO-8859-1 is

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-06 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:07, Miark wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:45:34 +0100, Kaj wrote: ...citizens of English-speaking countries rarely need anything besides us/uk-ascii Anyway, an easy way to check what charsets are installed is : Open a browser, i.e. Firefox. Select

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread David Reynolds
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 04:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread Larry Goff
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:16:40 -0500, Carroll wrote: æ, ø and å or even the Euro-symbol ___. While I can't speak for David, using KMail 1.7 under KDE 3.3.0-5 I could read all of the Scandinavian characters as well as the Euro symbol in your original post (and Anne's). Of course, when

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread David Reynolds
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 23:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 22:06, Anne Wilson wrote: snip For that matter, how did you get the symbol into this message, as well as the code? If I type '#163;' into either text editor or kword

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Miark
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like æ, ø and å or

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to

[newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be able to

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 January 2005 20:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Anne, as a native English-speaker, you don't have to remember that many ASCII escape-sequences. But a few, nevertheless, come in handy like ½ (#189;), @ (#64;), £ (#163;) and a few more. As a

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:50 + schreef Anne Wilson: - From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that Spanish thingy that I can never remember the name for - the various chars that use them come in very handy. I

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 21:35, Paul wrote: Op Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:50 + schreef Anne Wilson: - From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that Spanish thingy that I

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 January 2005 22:06, Anne Wilson wrote: snip For that matter, how did you get the symbol into this message, as well as the code? If I type '#163;' into either text editor or kword I just get the literal string. /snip In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again,