On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:26 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
my encodings /were/ set to force UTF8 in and out. I've now just set that as the default but aren't enforcing them with the Preferences->Display->Fonts check boxes anymore. It looks /better/ but still non-alphanumeric characters (like apostrophe) are hosed. Maybe I'll change my default from UTF8 to one of the ISO "standard" encodings and see how it looks.
Was it actually an apostrophe, or something similar looking being misused as one?
ISO-8859-1 is a common standard, but only much use for very plain English. UTF-8 should be supported by just about everything, by now. But could still come a cropper if it went through a 7-bit system (they're still around), UTF-7 is supposed to be a solution to that.
You could always give things a bit of a test. Read man iso-8859-1 in a console, cut and paste a slab of it into an e-mail, and post it to yourself. Try out different encoding options, see what happens.