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Re: locales and accented charaters



On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Oliver Fuchs wrote:

> 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.

Hi,
here is what I did:
run dpkg-reconfigure localeconf
set all questions about languages to de_DE.ISO-8859-15
If that works do the same procedure but setting it to
en_US.ISO-8859-1 and
Hope you succeed.

Oliver
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