Re: mutt char/keymaps again

[dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu (Dimitri Maziuk)]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:30:41PM +0100, Paul Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:04:16PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> > While we're at it, why does mutt display pound sign as \243 (in
> > message body)? Jed doesn't seem to have a problem (when replying to 
> > that message). Is that normal behaviour when charset is not specified 
> > in the headers?
> 
> Set a locale. For you it would be LANG=en_US. Otherwise mutt will not
> print "unprintable" characters (in the POSIX "C" locale all characters
> \200-\377 are unprintable). I assume by pound sign you mean the symbol
> for GBP, rather than the octothorpe.

Thanks (now, why didn't I think of that?). So it's jed's fault -- it
shouldn't display \243 as symbol for GBP when locale is set to C.

Dima
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