on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:01:56AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs insinuated:
> 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.
thanks ... it's already commented out, though.
any further ideas?
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