Re: apostrophes showing as ?
On (14:26 06/04/06), Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx> put forth the proposition:
> Hello David,
>
> On Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 1:53:14 +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
>
> > When I view some emails I find ' replaced by qestion marks
>
> Like <?>, in this or in Kyle?s mails?
Kyle's are a good example Also I see Kyle's as Kyle?s.
> So probably your terminal?s
> charset has some lacking characters? The best solution would be to use a
> better terminal, with a CP-1252 or UTF-8 charset, and of course the
> corresponding system locale. Otherwise you could try iconv?s
> transliterations by appending "//TRANSLIT" to the $charset value.
>
I've tried Aterm, Xterm and a normal VT by switching from X with
ctrl-alt-F6. I probably need to read up on charsets I guess.
> Procmail ?solutions? unreversibly modifying the original mails can
> very well turn to be destructive by accident. Rather dangerous.
>
>
> > I've tried using various ansi/non-ansi fonts
>
> What do you mean exactly?
I usually start mutt with:
aterm -fn helvetica -g 125x45 +tr -e mutt -f ~/mail/dave
I have tried -fn sabvga and also the default vga font.
>
>
> Bye! Alain.
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