Problem with accented characters

[Simon Santoro]

Neilen Marais wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running Hoary. I enabled the compose key in gnome to get accented
> characters. I use them on IRC using xchat, but the other IRCers claim
> they can't see my accented characters. However, I can see theirs, mine
> look fine locally, and if they cut-n-paste the garbled characters it
> again looks fine on my side. 
> 
> Perhaps I can reproduce the problem here:
> 
> e with ^ : ê
> e with " : ë
> 
> Help appreciated!

What Character Encoding do you have selected in xchat? Western ISO 
8859-15 should work.

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