Re: \205
On Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 1:55:14 PM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote:
> I feel I should be able to use whatever terminal I want and get text
> displaying properly.
Limited by terminal capability: If it has no horizontal ellipsis,
you will not get an ellipsis. Only a question mark, or a fake ellipsis
transliterated to three dots...
> I'm getting the question marks here on putty.
Set PuTTY Configuration / Translation / Character set translation on
received data / "Win1252 (Western)", select in "locale --all-locales" a
suitable locale for your language, country, and CP-1252, export it, and
then restart Mutt…
Or set charset="//TRANSLIT"
Bye! Alain.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?