Re: Going Linux

"Fran" <none@none.com> schreef:

> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
> news:slrnbf9q3i.8mc.no.spam@adam.blinkynet.net...
>> Fran wrote:
>>
>> > Does any of you know how Mandrake handles Eastern European

Yes it does, like all the other Linux distros, when you set your locale
right.

>> > characters? If you know what è,æ,¾ is then you probably know what
>> > I'm talking about.
>>
>> Don't know why it would be a problem.
>>
>> I'm seeing your accented e, your ae (is that called a ligature?) and
>> your three-fourths fraction, in my news client and in my editor.
>
> Great, but that was not supposed to be accented e, ae, or fraction. There
> lies the problem.

No, Blinky is right, if you want these characters to look different than
what he describes, you or your news client should add the correct MIME
headers; without them you're posting as plain 7-bit ASCII.

My message headers list the following:
Content-Transfer-Encodin: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Mime-Version: 1.0

Instead of "ISO-8859-15" you should use your local character set.
(I'm not sure what charset is normally used in Croatia.)

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JanC

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