On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:51:33 +0200, Kristian Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Paul M Foster wrote: > > I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things > > like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I > > believe this is a problem with character sets in Windows versus > > Linux. I'm assuming that if I include the proper "locale" in Linux, > > this problem will go away. Does anyone know how to solve this, and > > what the character set is which Windows uses (in American English)? > > I had that problem when mounting a windows partition. > > Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; > i.e. mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the > proper one for american english though; iso8859-1? Apostrophes, > quotes, scandinavian characters (åäö), etc., are showing up just as > they're supposed to do now. ..æ and ø too? Does anyone use iocharset=utf8 or -16 ok?
> I don't think it has anything to do with the locale, as such, since I > had the locale set up properly (I hope), but simply telling mount how > to mount it properly. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
