Re: charset

Billy Chan (bilchan@station.net)
Sat, 08 Jun 1996 03:09:52 -0400

Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:52:43 +0800 benyuen@hk.gin.net (Ben Yuen Kwok Chung)
wrote in list.Yarn:

>>Chinese Warp. Some Chinese characters are displayed OK in article
>>list screen but become unreadable in message viewing screen :-?
>
>I got the same thing in Twarp. I noticed that it would be mostly
>happened when the sender using MOZILLD or WINVN.

Pardon me, what are they ??

>># map ISO-8859/1 (ISO Latin 1) character set to IBM code page 850
>>#charset=iso-8859-1
>># map ISO-8859/8 (Hebrew) character set to IBM code page 862
>>#charset=iso-8859-8
>
>I have tried to omit the "#" but didn't work too.

Uncomment either of them makes it even worse. What I used to be able
to read can't be read. Stay where we were at the beginning.

It seems that non-sense characters have nothing to do with these
settings.

-- 
     Billy