* Lukas Ruf (ruf@rawip.org)[20040603 10:32]: > Dear all, > > short version: I would like to make use of German Umlauts but have all > the messages displayed in English. How can I achieve this? Try just using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. You should be able to see not only German, but also Japanese, etc. Since your locale is still en_US, all of your messages should still be displayed in US English. I use this setting and have no problems displaying (correctly encoded) messages in mutt, vim, etc. I use the "correctly encoded" qualifier because if someone sends you a windows CP-1252 message claiming that it's ISO-8859-1, it's not going to display properly. Mutt's edit-type command (bound to ctrl-e by default) is useful for correcting messages that lie about their true encoding. I'd also advise you to have the default locale be "None" when dpkg-reconfigure locales asks you. Just set LANG in your ~/.bashrc. You can also unselect all of the locales you selected, leaving only en_US.UTF-8 to be generated. If this isn't enough to get you going, please explain exactly what you're trying to display and where. For instance, is this a UTF-8 text file, or a ISO-8859-1 email in mutt? and is it in an xterm, or on the console? I have my default x-terminal-emulator set to uxterm, and my locale looks like this: vineet@quesadilla:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= and everything pretty much Just Works. good times, Vineet
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