Re: charset in debian mutt
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:35:18AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, I looked carefully at the appropriate debian readme; I made sure my
> locales were set (used debconf-reconfigure locales),
No, you would have used 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. What locales did you
instruct it to build? Did you then check to make sure that they were, in
fact, built?
> put the appropriate export line in my ~/.bashrc.
If it's so appropriate, then what is it?
> But mutt still says it's using 7-bit US aSCII instead of iso8859-1.
No it's not. Mutt doesn't "say" anything of the sort. You might be seeing
that in the mail headers for a message, which is certainly not in any way
controlled by mutt.
> Oh yes, and I did log in again after changing my .bashrc.So what am I
> missing? thanks.
An accurate description of the problem and the steps you've taken to try
and solve it.
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