Re: e-mail encoding/formatting (was Re: Split-screen mode in mutt?)
Hi Derek,
On Monday, May 1, 2006 at 13:45:50 -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 30 at 09:54 PM, quoth Derek Martin:
>>> How does one even generate these characters on a Unix system
I use a keyboard map ported to Linux from Denis Liégeois' Win32
keyboard driver. It adds some tens of characters to the standard French
keyboard, thru AltGr combinations or deadkeys. [AltGr]+[K] for Kurly
Kyle’s apostroph, [dead-^][z] for the ž (z with caron accent).
Consistent behaviour under Windows, when SSHing to Linux, and directly
under the Linux console. Beware: French keyboard only.
There are tons of other Linux keyboard maps, from very simple to
horribly complex. This one is far from beeing the most complete, but is
quick to learn, and simple to use. This compromise pleased me, together
with consistency across platforms. Now I'm accustomed and do not use
[Alt]+[0][1][4][6] anymore. ;-)
>>> some Windows applications use this [CP-1252] encoding and
>>> incorrectly label the resulting data as iso-8859-1.
>> add a “charset-hook iso-8859-1 windows-1252” to your muttrc
No. Add there “charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ windows-1252” instead. The
stricter regexp prevents nasty bad effects.
> Which only works if your system actually knows aobut that character
> set.
No: This charset-hook is a benefit for more cases. Directly, or
indirectly: It cooperates very well with //TRANSLITerations, on
not-good-enough terminals.
> Another common Microsoft (or just any webmail) brain-death is
> mislabeling virtually every encoding as us-ascii.
Yes, and that's a problem without universal solution. Now, for a
westerner, in practice, the vast majority of such mails will really be
in CP-1252 (or any subset). Which permits a quite usefull workaround.
Bye! Alain.
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