Re: [Pan-users] Where do I set the encoding for reading/writing posts?

[Duncan]

Jim Henderson posted on Thu, 12 May 2011 01:31:25 +0000 as excerpted:

>> For that, take a good text editor (of course sed's useful at the
>> command line for stuff like this, once you know the format to s/// on)
>> to $PAN_HOME/group-preferences.xml, doing a search-and-replace on the
>> old value, within a string such as:
>> 
>> <string name='character-encoding' value='UTF-8'/>
>> 
>> ($PAN_HOME defaults to ~/.pan2 if the environmental variable is unset,
>> of course.)
>> 
>> Just be sure you don't screw up the XML structure, keep quoting intact,
>> etc, the basic precautions one would normally take with an xml based
>> file.
> 
> Yea, that's kinda what I'm thinking.
> 
> Does that setting force the code page for reading, or just for posting?

I don't actually know.  Since I only read English, I don't have much 
/reason/ or opportunity to know.  I might come across the occasional 
oddball post, but they're occasional enough and often readable enough 
(only a few characters screwed up) that I can either infer from context or 
skip mark-read-and-go-on for the unreadable stuff.

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