Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows character sets

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 07:29:30 EST


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Is this the difference between the 7-bit character sets vs the 8-bit ones? I
don't know how to fix it, but I'm wondering if that would be a useful amount
of information for a possible fix...

Russell

On Sunday 30 November 2003 22:58 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
> You've probably all seen this: certain characters on some websites (and
> other places) display as '?' instead of what they really are (usually
> typographical quote marks and the like). This is only a problem on
> Linux; Windows appears to display these things properly. I believe this
> is a question of character sets or locales or somesuch. The question is
> which character/locale setting set does Windows use, and how to fix
> this?
>
> Paul
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