Non-english characters in mutt (was: Locale and date/time settings)
Along this same line, is there a locale setting which would allow mutt
to display non-English characters? Now they all show up as "?".
Bob
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:37:46PM -0400, David P James wrote:
> Colin Watson was roused into action on 2002-10-07 12:01 and wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:06:31AM -0400, David P James wrote:
> >
>
> >>
> >>I did this, and the right format is used, but unfortunately the '-'s
> >>were replaced by other characters. This is somewhat frustrating; for
> >>starters, why is the default date format on the 'internationalist'
> >>Debian OS the illogical US standard?
> >
> >
> >There's nothing we can do about it: it's how the C locale is defined.
> >
> >
> >>And second, why is there no easy-to-use ISO format date? Right now I'm
> >>using the German standard, which is better than what I had, but still
> >>not what I want.
> >
> >
> >There's en_DK, which despite being a "joke invention"
> >(http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2001-April/001727.html) seems to
> >produce what you want.
> >
>
> Thank you Colin. Sorry if I sounded a bit terse earlier; I had just gone
> through the process of generating half a dozen or so different locales
> with none of them turning out to use the ISO format. I had begun to
> wonder what en_DK was though, as I could figure out most of the rest (I
> knew DK was Denmark but English_Denmark didn't seem to make any sense).
>
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