Everybody thanks for all info. I didn't realise that most of the time I read everything correct and that the problem was the particular webpage or email. Hans On 03/11/10 05:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Tuesday, 2010-11-02 at 16:54 +0100, Hans de Faber wrote:
I did my homework now and studied something about charactersets. My locale is set to "en_GB.UTF-8". My idea was, when my charset is utf8 al characters of different languages are available. I should then be possible to read content in different languages correctly.
Yes, with text. Html seems to have its own means.
But it wasn't. In the case of an email or webpage I forgot that if the sender uses a different charset for instance iso8859-15 and I use utf8 some characters are wrong. If I switch to the same charset as the sender it should be possible to read it correct. But always switching charsets is not what want.
Leave it on automatic. The sender program should say what charset it is using so that receiving program displays properly. The problem is that some do not.
For example, for some reason, this page displays badly:
http://es.tldp.org/Articulos/0000otras/doc-traduccion-libre/doc-traduccion-l...
needs selecting manually charset iso...-15.
In thunderbird I even don't know how to switch a charset.
View / charset encoding, choose. I use automatic, but on some cases I have to choose.
Then its difficult to read an email in german or french.
Maybe it is a good option to change my locale to en_GB.iso8859-15 ???
No, it would be worse. Most linux software is nowdays designed for utf. if you receive an email with a character outside of the choosen iso range, you will not be able to display it at all. (single byte chars)
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)
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