On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 19:21 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op zondag 22-04-2007 om 19:06 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Bert Mariën: > > Which character encoding is commonly used by Linux users? > > It depends, but Ubuntu uses UTF-8 by default. > > > I sometimes experience a little trouble viewing mails. Must be because > > I use characters like "é" and "ë". > > That shouldn't happen when a mail or the part of the mail that you are > viewing has the correct MIME 'Content-Type:' header. > > > At the moment I use iso-8859-1, but I notice UTF-8 is rather commonly > > used. > > In your mail that I reply to, you are using UTF-8: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
That IS very strange, because here it clearly says ISO-8859-1 > > > It also makes a big difference for viewing files on my Windows > > partitions; e.g. for my music files I quiet often get a rather strange > > name with mostly symbols. > > It's possible to set a charset for mounting Windows partitions, but that > only affects filenames. How do I do that? > > If you are talking about tags in e.g. MP3 files, there are some tools > (scripts) that can convert these to UTF-8, but then your Windows > programs might have problems displaying them. The problem is that ID3 > tags have no (standard) way to tell which charset is used in them. > > > -- > Jan Claeys > > No, I was just talking file names. Bert.
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