> Frank Sheeran: > > > I get the digest of the group once or twice a day as traffic warrants, > and > > I read it on the Google gmail web page on Google Chrome as the browser. > > > > I notice certain posters, and I hate to single out anyone but for > > instance Nigel > > Redmon, often become quite hard to read with all apostrophes turned to > > question marks: > > > > > about ?what you can get away with?, not about precision. First, it?s > > frequency > > > > Am I the only one with this problem, and is there a setting I should use > to > > take care of it? > > This would be a character encoding problem, and I don't know of any > setting > that you could use to take care of it. I don't see that problem, which is > surprising, because I use a most ancient email client and plain text (not > HTML) mode. In the particular example given here, Nigel's message appears > to > be using the UTF-8 encoding, allowing anything UTF-8 aware to render > typographically correct quotation characters. > > But... I don't subscribe to the digest version of the list. I wonder if > the > digest version of the list simply munges together all the messages, with > all > their potentially disparate character encodings and declares it all to be > something as basic as US-ASCII. That would certainly explain the symptoms > here. > > I found this in the default mailman config - it might be the problem:
[language.master] # Template for language definitions. The section name must be [language.xx] # where xx is the 2-character ISO code for the language. # The English name for the language. description: English (USA) # And the default character set for the language. charset: us-ascii # Whether the language is enabled or not. enabled: yes
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