<<< Date Index >>>     <<< Thread Index >>>

Re: wrong charset (fwd)



On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:37:40AM -0300, Luis A. Florit wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 16 at 10:54 AM, quoth Luis A. Florit:
> > > My problem is with iso-8859-1. They seems to understand only UTF-8.
> >
> > Yup. Well, I guess at this point the question boils down to: what's
> > wrong with using UTF-8 for displaying things on the Nokia?
> 
> That ISO-8859-1 text files, 99% of my files, are shown as garbage...

Even in vim? They shouldn't. If they are, your vim is broken or
misconfigured. With cat and other "dumb" tools this is to be expected,
of course, and then you have little choice except changing the terminal
character encoding to match your files, since you can't change the
locale (except to C, which should be iso-8859-1 and might even work to
make mutt speak iso-8859-1).

-- 
Jussi Peltola