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Re: Character Set trouble



On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:04:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I am seeing the ? character instead of actual accented characters in
> mail I get, even if it has
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>         charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> I am using mutt in a KDE console on woody, so I'm not even sure what
> component I should be looking at.
> 
> When I visit my mail file in emacs the accented characters also don't
> appear properly, though I see several gibberish characters instead of
> a simple ?.
> 
> I'd appreciate a pointer about how to fix this up.  Thanks.

man locale

export LANG=en_US  (or something using 8859-1).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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