Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs
On October 30, 2002 at 11:47AM -0500,
Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > With UTF-8 you need a multibyte aware terminal emulator. Which terminal
> > emulator do you use? Try mlterm as it allows you to change the encoding
> > at run time (Ctrl-button3).
>
> I'[ve been using kterm -- mlterm wouldn't run on my system for some
> reason and I didn't want to expend the energy necessary to fix it.
kterm doesn't support UTF-8.
> > For emacs, it might be a good idea to install mule-ucs. Yudit is also a
> > very nice UTF aware editor with integrated truetype support.
>
> what is mule-ucs?
You can do `apt-get install mule-ucs'.
If you want to use emacs on the UTF-8 terminal, put
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) in your `~/.emacs'.
On my system, sid i386, I can see UTF-8 characters in emacs21 (or
emacs20) with mule-ucs on the mlterm with `LANG=en_US.UTF-8'.
--
Tatsuya Kinoshita
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