Re: international characters in mutt

[mark@foresthaven.com]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:03:46PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> 
> <cite>
> l10n support
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no
> use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual
> page muttrc(5).
> Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on
> your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable.
> e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their ~/.bashrc.
> If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do
> what it says, or it will not work.
> No, linux does not need --enable-locales-fix or --without-wc-funcs, so
> don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems.
> </cite>
> 
> So where does that leave the solution?
> 

¡Finally! The simple solution that actually works! After doing the
"export LC_CTYPE=en_US", international characters show up properly in
the internal pager. (on my systen, at least)

Thanks,
-- Mark