Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:39:41AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of English and other European languages.

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are the voodoo

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:14:47PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence.

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:54:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:14:47PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence.

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I installed the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator because it's a lot lighter then xterm, although both should handle UTF-8. You should use a unicode font though. I put the following in my ~/.Xresources: I had something like

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of English and other European languages. I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per char for most of us. That's not true. UTF-8 is a

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:28:14 +0200, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't konsole have a help menu? Otherwise check the konsole site: http://konsole.kde.org/ It seems to have a handbook online. Isn't there a man konsole? Oh wait, KDE doesn't have standard manpages... :-) Never mind,

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:39:41AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of English and other European languages. I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per

how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-08 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other initiation files (probably including my muttrc)

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:35:07 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other initiation files