Re: Mutt's internal pager and accented characters
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I find it simplest by far to run mutt in a UTF-8 locale, at which point
> it can deal with accented characters from a wide range of languages
> without me having to intervene further. You'll need a terminal emulator
> that can cope (I have personal experience of pterm and uxterm) and a
> suitable font (your terminal emulator may or may not sort this out for
> you; with pterm it's easiest to pick a font).
Regardless of whether I'm using pterm or Eterm switching to UTF-8 does
not solve any problems. In fact it CREATES more problems! Setting mutt to:
set charset="utf-8"
gives me a capital A with a ~ on top instead of correctly mapping as lower
case a with an accent grave on top.
> > according to /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian
<snip>
> > But I've tried setting the LC_CTYPE="fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15" to no avail.
>
> That's not a legal value for LC_CTYPE, incidentally;
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-15 would be better, or (if you take my approach)
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 for Unicode.
Where would I get legal values for LC_CTYPE? The instructions said to read
my /etc/locale.gen file and what I have is definitely listed there.
fr_CA ISO-8859-1
fr_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
emma
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