[Ubuntu-be] Character Encoding

[Bert Mariën]

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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