Lorry <fish at slava.net> wrote: > > OK, this brings up a question I've been wondering anyway. > Although that's the first time I've gotten an email quite like that... I > do send/receive emails in other languages, and I don't know how to: > 1) set it up so special characters like accented vowels show up as the > characters intended instead of as "?" There could be a number of reasons for that. It's fairly likely that someone on the other end is using a mailer that is lying about the format it's sending data in. It's also possible that the font you're using just doesn't include that character and therefore can't display it.. > 2) make special characters in my own emails > in Linux. I know how to in my other operating system which I would > prefer not to have to use. I've tried searching for information on > this, but I always end up finding Linux information in various > languages, rather than information on how to so this. Any info on this? Well, if you have a Windows keyboard, you can set up those extra buttons to actually be somewhat useful. My right Windows button (pops up the Start menu) is set up to act as a `compose' key. If I press it, then a letter, and then another character, I can get certain international characters to come up. Unfortunately, I can't demonstrate it here because Sylpheed is complaining that it can't convert the code set when I try to send the message (dunno why it can't go from iso8859-1 to itself..) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Linux Geeks: Smart. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Single. Sexy. Well, 2 \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) out of 3 ain't bad. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010929/567b95ec/attachment.pgp