Re: Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-21 Thread Curt
On 2021-09-20, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2021-09-20 at 03:21, David Christensen wrote: > >> Your message displays strangely on Thunderbird (oversized Courier=20 >> font?). > > In my case, it displays with unusually-small characters and what looks > like a different font, not unusually large ones.

Re: Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-20 Thread David Christensen
verify that your e-mail client is configured to compose messages in plain text (e.g. ASCII), not HTML. In this case, it has nothing to do with plain text vs. HTML. If you look at View -> Character Encoding (at least in my older Thunderbird, although I have no reason to expect it to have moved

Re: Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 07:16:27AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-09-20 at 03:21, David Christensen wrote: > > > Your message displays strangely on Thunderbird (oversized Courier > > font?). > > In my case, it displays with unusually-small characters and what looks > like a different font,

Message display settings by character encoding (was Re: foolish problem with installer: can't load firmware)

2021-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
client is configured to compose > messages in plain text (e.g. ASCII), not HTML. In this case, it has nothing to do with plain text vs. HTML. If you look at View -> Character Encoding (at least in my older Thunderbird, although I have no reason to expect it to have moved in newer ones), you&

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:40:17PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > > > arro

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > > arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed o

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > > arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed o

Re: character encoding

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 4:50 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There are programs that can convert between encodings, including the > > > "convmv" package, which converts only filenames, the package > > > "utf8-migration

Re: character encoding

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:20:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When I run 'ls' on

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Patter
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:20:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > >> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little >> arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt c

mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > arrows in mutt's index. Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly, depending on how mutt is started. I think the best test is

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 2, 2008 4:50 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are programs that can convert between encodings, including the > > "convmv" package, which converts only filenames, the package > > "utf8-migration-tool" and the "recode" package. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a > > > question > > > mark in

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question > > mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand > > what is ha

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-02 14:53:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Where does encoding come in to play in the handling of file names? The > kernel, I assume, just sees byte sequences, right? When you interact with a > terminal, or other software, you must enter a filename and hope you are > matching the encoding u

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread ChadDavis
Where does encoding come in to play in the handling of file names? The kernel, I assume, just sees byte sequences, right? When you interact with a terminal, or other software, you must enter a filename and hope you are matching the encoding under which the file name was created, or it won't match

Re: character encoding

2008-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:52:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-12-31 15:08:24 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3) What is the encoding of the file name? Is this a feature of the > > > filesystem? > > > > This is also b

Re: character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-31 15:08:24 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) What is the encoding of the file name? Is this a feature of the > > filesystem? > > This is also based on your locale. And this is nasty: This means that if the user changes

Re: character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question > mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand > what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals. > > 1

character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread ChadDavis
When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals. 1) what is the default encoding of my debian system? 2) It seems that a

Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-02-05 Thread Kim Christensen
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-31 06:58:16 -0600]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/31/07 02:33, Kim Christensen wrote: > > * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 12:49:00 +0100]: > > > >> On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > >>> On

Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/07 02:33, Kim Christensen wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 12:49:00 +0100]: > >> On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote: This might no

Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-01-31 Thread Kim Christensen
* Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 12:49:00 +0100]: > On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote: > > > This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way > > > (hack/tool) to determine the

Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-01-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote: > > This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way > > (hack/tool) to determine the encoding used for a given file? > apt-cache show recode How can you do tha

Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote: > Hey list > > This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way > (hack/tool) to determine the encoding used for a given file? > > Best regards > -- Hi Kim , apt-cache show recode apt-cache show enca cheers, K

Determining character encoding for a given file

2007-01-30 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way (hack/tool) to determine the encoding used for a given file? Best regards -- Kim Christensen "I want bowel cancer!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: default nautilus character encoding

2006-10-23 Thread Tobias Niemann
Sven Arvidsson said the following on 15.10.2006 00:20: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 23:13 +0200, Tobias Niemann wrote: >> I'd like to change the default character encoding from nautilus for >> creating files or directories. If I create a directory with (for >> example) a Ge

Re: default nautilus character encoding

2006-10-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 23:13 +0200, Tobias Niemann wrote: > I'd like to change the default character encoding from nautilus for > creating files or directories. If I create a directory with (for > example) a German Umlaut (e.g. testdatö) in nautilus, outside nautilus > (here in ate

default nautilus character encoding

2006-10-13 Thread Tobias Niemann
Hi, I'd like to change the default character encoding from nautilus for creating files or directories. If I create a directory with (for example) a German Umlaut (e.g. testdatö) in nautilus, outside nautilus (here in aterm) it looks like this: tobias:/$ ls -la testd* total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 t

Re: totem playlist: character encoding problem.

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:25:07PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > I use totem to play the song. In playlist show strang song name like a > attach file. > Surachai Locharoen Hi Surachai, the interface seems to show readable text but not the window title or the song name. The interface text co

totem playlist: character encoding problem.

2006-05-26 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use totem to play the song. In playlist show strang song name like a attach file. -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> totem.png Description: PNG image

Re: character encoding in email

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: > OT again, I fear. But can someone enlighten me as to why a steadily > growing proportion of email is full of wierd codes. I can only suppose > they are characters encoded in a way either exim or mutt is failing to > interpret. > > A typical example at rando

character encoding in email

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
OT again, I fear. But can someone enlighten me as to why a steadily growing proportion of email is full of wierd codes. I can only suppose they are characters encoded in a way either exim or mutt is failing to interpret. A typical example at random of the kind of thing I mean: Annan\222s vi

Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

2004-08-02 Thread Debian Users
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: NLE> Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NLE> NLE> > Hello there! NLE> > NLE> > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows NLE> > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on NLE> > the Lin

Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

2004-07-30 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there! > > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on > the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Windows > install, but b

Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

2004-07-30 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Debian Users wrote: > Hello there! > > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on > the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Wind

Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

2004-07-29 Thread Debian Users
Hello there! I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Windows install, but both were unable to transfer files with special charact

Re: Apache character encoding problems [ FIXED; thanks ]

2003-08-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Thanks to the guys who answered in private (but do answer to the list next time!) I had to comment out this line: AddDefaultCharset on in httpd.conf, so now Apache will not force ISO-8851-1. I understand there's a security issue involved (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html), but we d

Apache character encoding problems

2003-08-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'm trying to migrate one web server to one Debian box, and almost everything works... Except for one little problem. This server hosts sites in different languages, and it seems that only the ISO-8859-1 languages are being shown correctly (Spahish, English, Portuguese, Italian, etc). All

Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:20, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the > > time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've > > noticed that whenever I call

Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the > time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've > noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get > some chara

semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Rob VanFleet
I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get some character issues, most annoying being the fact that all '-' characters appea