Re: [debian-user] Mutt and locale
>--[Lonnie Sutton]--<lsutton2@qwest.net>
> 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.
If you get mails with escaped bytes, then the email itself is broken,
as it contains bytes whose encoding is undefined or whose values
don't make sense, e.g. dumb quotes in the iso-8859-1 encoding, or
no encoding given for the body, but still with 8bit characters, or
unencoded 8bit characters in the header.
If you get a "?" question mark, then the character in the email doesn't
exist in your locale; as en_US uses iso-8859-1, then that character is not
in the iso-8859-1 range. If you'd use en_US.UTF-8, then you'd be able to
display _all_ characters, but there are programs that can't cope with
multibyte encodings. However, mutt and KDE, in general, do. Games usually
don't.
You do not need to install localeconf, unless you want to configure
different settings for language, encoding, etc. Setting one big default
(that is LC_ALL) to the correct value is usually the best.
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