Re: international characters in mutt

[Doug Hespe <hespe@acay.com.au>]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 09:55:18PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
> Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie
> 
> 	LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt .
> 
> mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters.
> 
Aha! Thanks Victor.
That works well if I launch mutt from the command line (I set up an
alias in .bashrc) but I usually launch it from the mailbox icon in
Tkdesk. Are there any Tkdesk gurus out there who can tell me what to
change in the following line from the config file?

{{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt'}}

originally I had:

{{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e mutt}}

which worked like the one Stig Brautaset complained of. Unfortunately, so
does my new one. I have tried various combinations of ` `, ' ', and " "
enclosing the 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt' stuff, but no success as
yet.

Hooroo,
Doug.