Re: Mutt and locale
Lonnie,
I had a very similar problem a couple of days ago. I needed to install the
localeconf package, I did the configuration with debconf. I let the LANG
be the default, C, after that I only set the LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to hu_HU
(that's the language I needed) to override the default and after that everything
worked out fine. I guess setting the LC_CTYPE variable solved the problem.
I'm sorry but I'm not an expert on this field, so I don't know where and
what the debconf edited. My /etc/locale.gen has only one row "hu_HU ISO-8859-2",
but where the LC_* was written...no clue...
Hope that helps a little..
Jozsef
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:51:11PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote:
> I seem to have munged something up somewhere, as I get a "?" where I
> should be getting accented letters, and I often get emails with "\227",
> or "\223", etc. where I should be getting punctuation.
>
> Locale reports the following:
>
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE=en_US
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=
>
> My /etc/locale.gen reports:
>
> # This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a
> # list
> # of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Other
> # combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change
> # this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.
> #
> # XXX GENERATED XXX
> #
> # NOTE!!! If you change this file by hand, and want to continue
> # maintaining manually, remove the above line. Otherwise, use the
> # command
> # "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to manipulate this file. You can manually
> # change this file without affecting the use of debconf, however, since
> # it
> # does read in your changes.
>
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
> # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be
> # preserved
> # by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF
> # SECTION
> # FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
> # localeconf" line.
> ### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
>
> I read the /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian file and don't see any
> additional hints or directions there that I haven't followed.
>
> I am using mutt 1.5.4i.
>
> Thanks in advance for getting me sorted.
> --
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> Lonnie Sutton - lsutton2@qwest.net - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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