Ubuntu encodings

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> writes:

> (a website that does not specify encoding is probably a legacy
> website).

Maybe, but if it's a WWW site, it's implicitly specifying iso-8859-1
by default.  Local nets can have their own conventions, of course.

Characters are a huge messy issue and UTF-8 seems like a great attempt
to improve the situation, even if I can't read man pages on Ubuntu
without a lot of gobbledygook until XEmacs is made to conform.

Now, if we could just get M$FT supporters to stop using the "illegal"
characters from 128 to 159.