Re: locales and accented charaters

[Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs1@gmx.de>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely
> borked.  messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up
> in ascii codes like this:
> 
>   Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer
>   Kenntnisse, zur Beratung. Nur wenn wir sicher sind, dass Sie das
>   mitbringen, was wir voraussetzen, k\366nnen wir Ihnen den Zugang zum
>   Studium \366ffnen.
> 
> when replying to an email, the same text when quoted looks fine (the
> accented characters render as what they're supposed to be).  weird.
> 
> i tried `dpkg-reconfigure locales`, and generated en_US.ISO-8859-1 and
> en_US.UTF-8 ... still the same problem.  i really don't have any
> further ideas ... can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi,
have a look at /etc/inputrc:

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

and comment this one out.

Oliver
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