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Re: Reading UTF-8 Mail (was Re: e-mail encoding/formatting)



 On Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 18:18:36 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> [LANG=] Querying the charset variable (with :set ?charset) gives me
> "us-ascii" -- I'm not sure quite where that's coming from

    The charset implied by the default C locale is US-Ascii. Note that
not setting any locale variables is *not* a sensible configuration.


 On Friday, May 5, 2006 at 8:29:13 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> [uxterm] Kyle's curly quotes and the box-drawing characters in the
> index are slightly different---still wrong, just different).

    Kyle’s Kurly quote was displayed "?~@~Y", on your screen copies. In
what is it different now? Here: ’


 On Friday, May 5, 2006 at 10:13:59 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:

>| $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale
>| LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
    [...]
>| LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

    The output of the locale command also disturbed me, but well... Its
behaviour just seems different under MacOS. A little bit confusing, but
nothing grave.

    BTW: "locale -a" lists en_US.UTF-8 as available?


Bye!    Alain.
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