Hello, As this is my first mail on this list, i'd like to introduce myself. Quickly, i can say i'm a french Debian GNU/Linux user, using a "native" woody, ie i installed it from cd, not via a potato upgrade. Being french, i recently had the very same problem, so ... hope i can contribute ! :) En ce jour de jeu, aoû 29, 2002 at 01:48:13 CEST, j'eu l'honneur de reçevoir une missive de Nori Heikkinen : >no dice. i *can* set that one, but it doesn't seem to affect what >characters show up on the terminal or in mutt. what is weird it that >i *can't* set LC_CTYPE. I can't understand why you can't set thoses variables, but the solution for me was : - first, i checked that the 'locales', 'util-linux-locales' packages were installed. - then i ran 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', i (re?)-generated the fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15. When asked the default locale, i choosed fr_FR@euro. - after doing it, i still had no accents neither in mutt nor into any other console app. Then i thought it may be the terminal. I was using 'uxterm'. Then i just tried the 'xterm' and now it seems to work because i can read this correctly : 'éàâ'. I'm really not sure i understood how it works, but it works. I hope it may help you, and i look forward learning from your experience ... :) -- Pierre-François Gomez <pf.gomez@free.fr>
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