Subject: text display

From: Arlene MacLennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:10:44 -0500 (EST)

My display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. When I receive email
in the "ISO-8859-1" character set some of the characters are displayed
incorrectly. Is there a way I can set my display to read both sets of
characters correctly?
Thank you for any suggestions
Arlene

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Jan 1998 07:16:12 +0100

>>>On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:10:44 -0500 (EST), Arlene MacLennan <[email-masked]> said:

 AM> My display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. When I
 AM> receive email in the "ISO-8859-1" character set some of the
 AM> characters are displayed incorrectly. Is there a way I can set my
 AM> display to read both sets of characters correctly?  Thank you for
 AM> any suggestions Arlene

This is, what I've found in the tech-notes:

character-set
         This sets the character set used by the terminal. Currently
     appropriate values are US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 through ISO-8859-9 and
     ISO-2022-JP. See the section on international character sets for more
     details. The default is US-ASCII.

Since US-ASCII is a subset of ISO-88590-1 (is it?), you should have no
troubles in setting the variable 

s(etup) c(onfig) ctrl-w(here-is) "character-set" enter 
[?(help) ... enjoy ... e(xit)]
c(hange) "ISO-8895-1" enter e(xit) y(es)

Provided your terminal is able to display the character set, you're
done.  

hth, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch
a rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing!