Re: international characters in mutt
* mark@foresthaven.com <mark@foresthaven.com> spake thus:
> 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)
Hmm.. This works for me too. I am a bit dissapointed that I have to
resort to en_US though, en_GB or en_UK does not seem to work for me
(neither does no_NO for that matter). What's up with that?
Regards,
Stig
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