Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Lucas Bergman
> 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. You are correct. The character set used in the English-speaking Windows world by default

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Kristian Niemi
Right, well I guess it was good I tried iso8859-15 right away then, because that works like a charm. ;) Krisse Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Windows gets iso-8859-1 (ie, Latin-1) wrong. See for details. As far as I know, there's no way to force Linux (o

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 20:21]: > 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

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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 pr

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kristian Niemi said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:51:33PM +0200: > 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 thou

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Kristian Niemi
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.

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:19:10PM -0500, 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 i

Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-01 Thread Paul M Foster
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 a