Re: Accented characters

[gerard robin <robin.jag@free.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:27:32PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a member of an
> Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. However,
> when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where an accented character is in the messages.
> I though 8859-1 could handle extended characters...
 
I use accents too and in ~/.bashrc I added :

export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1  (with xfree4 ...)
or
export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859.1  (with xfree3...)

replace fr_FR by your own locale.

run :
locale -a     (and man locale)

hth

-- 
Gerard