Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:12:16PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > 
> > If you are using a graphical display, then UTF provides a good way to
> > avoid the problem if your mail reading software can do the translation.
> > But I don't think you can assume everyone on a public mailing list is
> > going to have that.
> 
> So far, every place I have noticed I hae a choice, I've set my Linux 
> system to use UTF-8 as its standard font.  But I still get question 
> marks when I use mutt.  No doubt I'll find the reason someday.  There;s 
> probably yet another place to tell it about character sets.
> 
> My point is, that even with good intentions and a real attempt at 
> consistent follow-through, it's still not easy enough to set up a 
> reasonable character set.
> 
> -- hendrik

Is that in the console or an xterm?

Andrei
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