[Ubuntu-be] Character Encoding

Bert Mariën marien.bert at telenet.be
Sun Apr 22 20:21:29 BST 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:14 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:

> Op zondag 22-04-2007 om 19:34 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef 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:
> > > > 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 
> 
> Where does it say that?
> 
> (Ctrl+U should pop up the source of the mail you are viewing.)


Even more confusing:

Mime says (Ctrl+U) : iso-8859-15

But: when I go:

evolution > edit > preferences > mail preferences > general

I see that the default character encoding is set to ISO-8859-1

And you see it as UTF-8

Strange indeed.


> 
> > > > 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 know about command lines and changing /etc/fstab, these options
> are listed in 'man mount' (this information is also available in the
> GNOME help browser).
> 

I'll check that.


> The options you need are or might be different for FAT/VFAT and NTFS,
> and I'm not sure what you would need for your Windows partitions (and I
> don't have any anymore to test on).
> -- 
> Jan Claeys


I'll keep that in mind.

Bert.

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