French accents test

[Peter]

--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 27 February 2006 at  0:05:31 -0500, Peter
> wrote:
> > --- clue less <clhuless at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Does the mailing list improperly strip iso-8859-1
> encoding and render it
> >> as unescaped UTF-8?
> >>   This is a test to see:  �����.
> >
> > I see the proper characters but when I reply in my
> yahoo account I get a
> > question mark in a black circle for each
> character.  This is a problem on
> > my end no doubt.
> >
> > Here is a test of my own: éà ïÉ
> 
> People, please use the FreeBSD-test mailing list for
> this sort of
> thing.
> 
> In this case, though, Peter, you're using the wrong
> encoding.
> According to your message, it was ISO 8859-1.  What
> you sent looks
> more like UTF-8 (and is thus mangled).

How do I change over?  This seems to happen only when
posting using my webmail yahoo account using firefox. 
Firefox shows ISO 8859-1 in its preferences.  I know
that I have pcre installed with UTF-8 support.  Can
this be causing the problem?

--
Peter


	

	
		
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