Re: more fun with mutt, locale and perl
Subject: more fun with mutt, locale and perl
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0700
In reply to:Mike Pfleger
Quoting Mike Pfleger(pfleger@pfleger-precision.com):
> Hello.
>
> I got the idea from reading the list traffic to use 8-bit ISO-8859-1
> instead of 7-bit ascii, but my attempts have apparenly failed. Perhaps
> someone can set me on the right path with this. I use mutt to read my
> mail, with the default pager, not less, and constantly see weird
> character representations. By this I mean question marks for characters
> with an umlaut, or other weird things like a slash followed by some
> digits. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the locale thing completely.
>
> in my .bashrc I have the following snippet:
> LANG=en_UK
> export LANG
>
Try this instead of the above
export LANGUAGE=en_UK
export LANG=en_UK
Let the list know if that works, OK.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
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can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
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