Subject: Help

From: "Leonardo J. Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:09:00 -0500 (EST)

I received a message from a friend in Germany and the system 
does not know how to display it.  Is there anything I can do to fix 
this?  What should I do?
					Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 00:47:16 GMT

[email-masked] (Leonardo J. Rodriguez):
> I received a message from a friend in Germany and the system does not know
> how to display it.  Is there anything I can do to fix this?  What should I
> do?

Give info!  We cannot see your system from here!  (Newbies - sheesh!)

Sven

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 06:05:55 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Leonardo J. Rodriguez wrote:

  >	I received a message from a friend in Germany and the system does
  >not know how to display it. Is there anything I can do to fix this? What
  >should I do?

That depends... If it's the usual cheerful brick through your living room
window, there's not much you can do --- except get used to local customs.
>:->

Otherwise, go to the S(etup), C(onfig) screen and set the character set like
this:

# Reflects capabilities of the display you have. Default: US-ASCII.
# Typical alternatives include ISO-8859-x, (x is a number between 1 and 9).
character-set=iso-8859-1

Enjoy,
Robin

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