Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:05:12 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>, Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Presentation format (was: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions) Message-ID: <19990317110512.2731.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com> of Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:18:49 %2B1030 References: <19990313010218.136B315389@hub.freebsd.org> <36EB039D.C59CCC5D@bulinfo.net> <19990314104437.11662.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990315071849.E429@lemis.com>
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> >> What about: > >> > >> - You sent a message in wrong language. # ??? > > > > To that you could well add: > > > > - You used a character set other than us-ascii > > > > Lots of people filter out (or just don't read) stuff that is > > posted to English-language mailing lists when it is sent in > > weird character sets. > > Hmm. It's about time that English speakers started to use ISO 8859-1 > or 8859-15 (I think). -15 appears to be an update of -1, but I don't > have much in the way of information. Anyway, these sets includes a > lot of symbols that are used in Western Europe, including currency > symbols such as £ and accented letters such as é and ö. If these > don't display correctly on your screen, you should check what fonts > you are using. I believe it works automatically under X, but if > you're still using the vts you'll have to load a font such as > /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt. That's a reasonable suggestion. The real point I was making was not so much to insist on us-ascii (although it does perfectly well for an English or Usanian language mailing list) -- but to suggest that there is little point in using character sets that have no correlation with the languages used in -questions. It remains possible that people who need this information might not be able to read the "How to" document anyway ... -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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