Re: In Search Of......Oethala

On Saturday 24 August 2002 08:37, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:35:56AM +0100, Barbara Barrett wrote:
> > Hi all ;-)
> >
> > Once again I ask your asistance, this time to see how well the oethala
> > crosses platforms.  So what do you see below and what platform are you
> > working on.
> >
> > Πupper case Oethala (O+E ligature)
>
> Shows up as a blank box (like a dotted outline). Certainly nothing like an
> O+E ligature.
>
> >  œ lower case oethala (o+e ligature)
>
> Doesn't appear at all, unfortunately.
>
> This is a Linux system.
        Probably a matter of fonts or encoding, because on my Linux box, I could see
them fine. Except when I hit reply, at which point they turned into little
boxes. Copy + paste restored them. Looking at Barbara's email, I see that it
was sent in iso-8859-1 encoding, which makes sense. Do you have Mutt set up
to automatically detect encodings? And what font do you use for your VT? The
'fixed' font might not be 8859-1 compatible.
        :Peter

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