Text Format -iso- or -ascci-

[Daniel Mashao <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za>]

Hi,

I occasionally get the following message on my mail reader

    [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set]
    [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
    [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]

I would like to start a discussion on this. 
1. Where can I set my text to the "iso-8859-1" character set?
2. What is advisable -iso- or -us-? What are the benefits of each? How
much will I lose? 
3. If I wanted to change to -iso- where are all the configuration files
that will need changing?

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