[Alpine-info] funnies with colours and character sets

[Mark Crispin]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

>>    But sometimes in news I get a (harmless) warning

>>    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]

>>    [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set.  ]

>>    [ Some special characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

>>    Are "ISO-8859-1" and  "iso-8859-1" any different ? I.e. is

>>    the name case sensitive ?

> I'm surprised by this, it should not be case-sensitive. We can't reproduce 

> this, either.


Is it possible that one of the "ISO-8859-1" strings is actually not ASCII 
"ISO-8859-1", but is either some Unicode string that renders the same way 
or perhaps "IS0-8859-1"?

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