On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:04:36AM -0700, Remo Mattei wrote: > I got this fancy characters on my man pages
You need to set your LOCALE settings to the correct character set for your language. There is documentation about this on the RedHat Website. I'm assuming you want to use a character set for something other than English. If you want plain English you can try : LANG='C' LANG='en_US' or something similar. Regarding your email format - Please stop sending your winmail.dat file to the list. There are people on this list who pay extra for every byte of data they receive. You are unintentionally degrading the email service to this list and affecting the disc storage of every person who receives in a very wasteful fashion. To understand why HTML and MIME should not be used in these lists please see the RedHat Install List Guide at : http://www.rps2.net/RHLinux/rhil-guide.htm OR: http://kinz.org/rhilg.html The guidelines in this document apply to the RedHat Install List, The RedHat List, the RedHat Open Source Now list and most other mailing lists. For these mailing lists MIME should only be used for PGP signed emails, or sending attachments. (Note: Its a bad idea to send attachments to ANY mailing list unless that list has been explicitly created for the purpose of distributing files, like software patches.) To see how to correct your email program so it doesn't send the winmail.dat file please see this document: http://expita.com/nomime.html (If you page down 3 or so pages you will see a list of email programs. If you click on your email program's name you will jump to the instructions on how to fix your email program.) Just below is a quote from the Guide about the use of HTML/MIME #################################################################### Email formatting is very simple: plain text, around 72 columns wide. Please avoid posting in HTML or MIME. Here's why - As the author of an email you have no idea what kind of email client the people who get your email will be using (an email client is the program used to receive and read the messages). This means that there is no way of knowing if someone's email program can display your email. If it can't - they can't help you. With the new wireless devices and PDAs that are becoming popular (yes, with Linux too), this problem is becoming even more of an issue. Plain text is the only email format you can use that guarantees it will readable by all the people who receive it. Many of the most helpful and knowledgeable people on this list won't even read your email if its in HTML or MIME format. Sorry, it's nothing personal, just too much of a hassle and a security danger for them. (HTML/MIME mail can have embedded info gathering or virus dangers). Many people around the world have metered internet access where they pay for each byte of data they receive, including their email, on a per-byte basis. MIME and HTML formatting increase the size of messages but don't add any information to them. Many Linux users won't even open HTML/MIME email messages because of the extra security dangers and work involved. Because of these issues you should not send HTML- or MIME-based email to this list. (and you should avoid it whenever possible in general). As a further benefit, not using HTML or MIME when you don't have to will actually speed up how fast your email goes out--especially if you use a dialup internet connection. You would have received this information privately but you have one of those "Jump through my hoop before I will read your email" whitelist filters. Since these filters are a win for spammers I don't use them. (I have no intention of doing extra work for you just because you can't keep spam out of your email. Get an anti-spam tool that doesn't harm non-spammers while doing nothing to the spammers.) To understand what whitelists REALLY do please read this article which is a collection of points regarding whitelists: http://www.kinz.org/whitelists.txt -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
