1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. NEWS.SOFTWARE.READERS

  • Re: slrn question

    From Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=E4uerle?=@21:1/5 to martin on Sat Nov 27 11:05:51 2021
    martin wrote:

    I am using slrn on an OpenBSD machine with leafnode
    I have sorted out all the rather odd text colour problems but
    one problem remains,
    the apostraphe ' appears as ??? in a lot of posts, but funnily
    enough not so in any posts in this group
    Can anyone point me in the right direction to rectifiy this

    thanks in advance

    Sounds like an Unicode problem.

    The code point U+2019 "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" is encoded as
    three octets in UTF-8 representation (this would explain your three
    question marks).

    Test:
    U+0027: '
    U+2019: ’

    If this really is the problem, then you should check your locale setup.
    The command "locale" should display the current settings.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From martin@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 27 10:37:53 2021
    I am using slrn on an OpenBSD machine with leafnode
    I have sorted out all the rather odd text colour problems but
    one problem remains,
    the apostraphe ' appears as ??? in a lot of posts, but funnily
    enough not so in any posts in this group
    Can anyone point me in the right direction to rectifiy this

    thanks in advance

    --
    Martin

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Marcel Logen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 27 14:02:33 2021
    Michael Bäuerle in news.software.readers:

    martin wrote:

    the apostraphe ' appears as ??? in a lot of posts, but funnily
    enough not so in any posts in this group

    [...]

    Sounds like an Unicode problem.

    [...]

    If this really is the problem, then you should check your locale setup.
    The command "locale" should display the current settings.

    Perhaps it would be helpful, additionally to play with the
    "charset" configuration command (and set it--e. g. for "display"
    --to "utf-8").

    <http://slrn.info/docs/slrn-manual-5.html#ss5.3>

    Marcel
    --
    ╭────╮ ╭─╮ ╭─────╮ ╭────╮ ╭───────╮ ╭─╮ ╭──╮
    ╭─╮ ╰──╮ ╰───╯ ╰─╮ │ ╭──╯ │ ╭─╯ ╰────╮ ╰─╯ ╰─╮ ╭─╯ ╰─
    │ │ ╰─╮ ╭────╯ │ ╰─╮ │ │ ╭───────╮ │ ╭─────╯ │
    │ ╰─────────╯ ╰──────╯ ╰────╯ ╰──╯ ╰──────╯ ╰────────╯5b5bfa

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Marcel Logen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 27 14:15:44 2021
    Michael Bäuerle in news.software.readers:

    martin wrote:

    I am using slrn on an OpenBSD machine with leafnode

    [...]

    If this really is the problem, then you should check your locale setup.
    The command "locale" should display the current settings.

    Here some further information on "locale" for OpenBSD systems: <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#locales>.

    Marcel
    --
    ╭───────╮ ╭──────╮ ╭──╮ ╭─╮ ╭───╮ ╭────╮ ╭
    ╭─╮ ╰────╮ │ ╭───╮ ╰───╮ ╰─╮ │ ╰─╯ │ │ ╰───────╯ ╰─╯
    │ ╰──╮ ╭─╯ │ │ ╰───╮ ╰─╮ ╰───╯ ╭───╯ │
    ─╯ ╰──╯ ╰──────╯ ╰────╯ ╰───────╯ f214f7

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to martin on Sat Nov 27 20:08:10 2021
    In message <slrnsq42k1.18qs.martin@news.rakupottery.org.uk> martin <martin@news.rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

    I am using slrn on an OpenBSD machine with leafnode
    I have sorted out all the rather odd text colour problems but
    one problem remains,
    the apostraphe ' appears as ??? in a lot of posts, but funnily
    enough not so in any posts in this group

    Is it the difference between ' and ’?

    If so, your character set, LANG setting, or font are the issue.


    --
    For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them
    in the same room and let them fight it out.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Branimir Maksimovic@21:1/5 to martin on Sat Dec 11 13:52:28 2021
    On 2021-11-27, martin <martin@news.rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

    I am using slrn on an OpenBSD machine with leafnode
    I have sorted out all the rather odd text colour problems but
    one problem remains,
    the apostraphe ' appears as ??? in a lot of posts, but funnily
    enough not so in any posts in this group
    Can anyone point me in the right direction to rectifiy this

    thanks in advance

    Don't have to do with srln rather your terminal emulator...

    --

    7-77-777
    Evil Sinner!
    with software, you repeat same experiment, expecting different results...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)