> Setting a ISO-8859 locale will mostly work but it's not so all > encompassing as using UTF-8 so if you can use UTF-8 it's better. > ISO-8859 character sets are basically only the 'Roman' character sets of > western[ish] Europe. Using UTF-8 will show almost anything, I get to > see chinese spam in all its chinese glory sometimes! :-) Out of interest Chris, do you use FreeBSD? I only ask because oddly enough i had better results using the ISO character sets than with UTF-8. I don't fully understand why and perhaps it's a BSD issue/thing. With my OpenBSD system i have even more trouble getting unicode characters to display properly.
Jamie
