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Re: Character Set Difficulty



Hello Timothy,

 On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 12:31:03 AM -0500, Timothy Parkinson wrote:

> mails coming to me display certain characters as the "?" character
> instead. Apostrophe's "'" and dashes "-" seem to be the most common
> characters affected.
>| Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> [...] codes like "=B4" and "=96".

    Setting your system locale to your language, country, and charset
will fix the =B4 (´). Setting a "charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ windows-1252"
will perhaps fix the =96 (–) if your charset has it. If not, use
//TRANSLITeration or a better terminal.


Bye!    Alain.
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