[Ubuntu-be] Character Encoding

[Jan Claeys]

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

> 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.

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.


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Jan Claeys