Re: locales and terminal
Hi,
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Matt Price wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've browsedsome recent posts but didn't see a direct answer, sorry if
> I'm being repetitive.
>
> I've recently started geting emails in french and german that I need
> to be able read. And I'd like to be able to respond to them in french
> and german as well...
>
> so I set LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 .
>
> but this does not allow the display of the relevant accented
> characters. Instead, I get a variety of responses from different
> programs -- emacs gives ?'s, cat gives funny hieroglyphics, and mutt
> in the default pager gives what I take are numerical character codes,
> eg \344 .
>
> so what's the problem? do I need a different system font or
> something? I would have thought locales would take care of that...
>
Not sure if this helps anything, but 'uxterm', is able to handle various
charactersets, while the ordinary xterm can only handle ASCII chars.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
> the other thing is, when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales, it doesn't
> let me set the default locale. The menu dialog comes up, but there
> are no choices. Could these things be related?
>
> I've been avoidingthis problem, but since I'm a european historian I'm
> really getting to the point where I have to be able to read and write
> in other languages... any help, or pointers to really good
> documentation/how-tos, would be extremely appreciated.
> thanks,
> matt
>
>
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