On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:54AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
| on Sun, 25 Aug 2002 02:06:37AM -0600, Bob Proulx insinuated:
| > Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002-08-24 21:52:22 -0400]:
| > > on Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:14:53PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt insinuated:
| > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 01:54:18PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
| > > > > Mine display all the accented ones OK.
| > > > I had LC_CTYPE=C. I changed it to en_US.ISO-8859-1. I noticed
| > > > something interesting:
| > >
| > > i recently ran into the same problem, and was just about to ask
| > > ... but exporting that variable setting doesn't seem to set it,
| > > nor does putting it in my ~/.zshenv and sourcing it.
| >
| > Reading this thread late, perhaps it is not mutt at all but the
| > terminal you are using to display it in? It seems to me that the
| > terminal window would need the charset capability before an
| > application like mutt could use it.
|
| right, that's where i'm trying to start from. i have the line
|
| export LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1
|
| in my ~/.zshrc, but neither sourcing that nor entering that at a
| prompt does anything to affect the ouput of `locale` ... so bit the
| terminal, and by exension, mutt, don't display accented charaters.
| what am i not understanding here?
Try
export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
instead. That's the variable I've always set.
-D
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