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Re: setting default encodings



On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:13:42PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> I sounds like you're fine. As Toby mentioned, a rectangle is most likely
> an indication that your font isn't equipped with that glyph. You should
> be able to confirm this with some font twiddling.
> 
> In the reply you saw three question marks where unicode had been because
> the person whose reply you read has a mutt config that isn't decoding
> the unicode. Since it can't decode unicode, quoted unicode characters
> get inserted into her mail as question marks. Your mutt is just echoing
> the question marks that hers replaced the unicode with.
Thanks David, I'm glad it wasn't me for a change.

John
-- 
It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
                                                      Noam Chomsky

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