Re: mutt's pager and 8 bit chars (solved)

[Rob Hudson <rob@eugene.net>]

Mirko Parthey said these things on 20001101.1622:
| On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
| > 
| > > I can't figure out how to make mutt's builtin pager
| > > display characters >= chr(128), e.g. German Umlauts (ÄÖÜßäöü),
| > > they are shown as question marks.
| > 
| > I have my LANG environment variable set to en_US and umlauts show up
| > just fine.  You might try setting yours to whatever is appropriate for
| > you.  I guess it would be something like de_DE.
| 
| Yes, that works. (both en_US and de_DE)
| 
| Thanks a lot!
| Mirko

Awesome!  I've had that problem for a while.   Thanks!  :)

Is this the appropriate way to fix it for sure ...

I put this in my .bashrc:

  LANG=en_US;
  export LANG;

Thanks,
Rob.