Re: tlug: shiver me timbers - Japanese!

[Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>
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> tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>

> What IS going on here? How can Netscape display the Japanese
> character set when I never installed it? Will Netscape magically
> display Cyrillic if I visit the KGB home page? 


You have some kanji/kana fonts installed, clearly.  I would not be
at all surprised in k14 et al were in the standard Xfree86 or MetroX
distributions.  

On win32 platforms, I have heard that MS actually includes Japanese
fonts with Internet Explorer so that you can look at Japanese web pages
w/o necessarily running a Japanese version of the OS.  (I assume you
have to get a Japanese version of the browser for this font to be
included).


Jim S wrote in another letter:

> The problem is with certain mailing list software -notably
> Listserv. If you check the header of this mail you'll see the
> return address as schweiz@example.com but the sender is
> jim@example.com

Just a guess--take a look at your /etc/hosts and see if you have any
names listed for 127.0.0.1.  Maybe some part of your mail system is
trying to map the hostname to an IP# and is deciding that your loopback
is your IP#?  I  don't think you need anything in /etc/hosts for your
loopback interface, although usually it is called "localhost".


Jason/not-all-that-helpful,-really
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