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? 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> Bye! Alain.
> --
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set charset=us-ascii//TRANSLIT has fixed it.
Thanks for help
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