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locales, character sets, the like...



Hello,

'scuse me, this is irritating me too much at the moment. I did some
research to find it out myself, but clearly didn't look in the right
places, while I can continue looking, maybe someone can save me time
during my test week and just point in the right direction?

I am trying to figure out the LOCALE stuff and character set settings.
Where can I find out what and how to setup my locale (does that include
language settings etc.)? Secondly, how does one control the character
set? I assume it defaults to an iso-8859-1 character set? I have tried
setting mutt's "$charset" to iso-8859-1, but an email with:

Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1

and an e^ (ê) comes out as "\352". (What is 352 anyway? Should be one
byte? So what, octal?) The "source" of the email is encoded as "=EA",
this is as I remember it from my pine days, and it did work well in
pine. (I set my charset to iso-8859-1 as well, iirc.)

Thanks to anyone that can shed light on this topic during these bleak
hours,
Hugo van der Merwe

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