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Re: locale LC_CTYPE



On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:29:46PM +0200, Bytor wrote:
> I am running mutt and I send a lot of e-mails written in Swedish.  As
> of now the three extra letters in the swedish alphabet show up as
> question marks or numbers like 345, 344 and 366.  I read somewhere
> that I need to change my LC_CTYPE variable in my locale.  I am not
> sure how to acomplish this. I would appreciate it greatly if some
> could tell how to do it or if someone knew of a solution to my
> problem.

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I had the same problem (in Danish, not Swedish), and this solves it for
me:
    export LC_CTYPE=da_DK

It also has the nice effect of allowing the Danish characters to be
entered at the bash command line.

[Off-hand, I don't know what value to use for LC_CTYPE for Swedish...]
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