On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:10:29AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Objective: Specify a locale value which: > > - Renders standard shell output properly. > - Supports international (iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) charactersets. > - Is supported by common text-mode utilities such as vim, mutt, tin, > and w3m. > - Doesn't cause Perl to choke. > > My current setting of LANG=en_US fails on the last three points. As you seem to be mainly interested in getting the character set correct, you should propably set LC_CTYPE instead of LANG. Actually, I don't really even know what LANG is supposed to do :-] > International characters under mutt and other utilities appear as octal > representations. Setting LC_CTYPE properly fixes this. -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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