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Re: dealing with non-standard characters in mutt/eterm



On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:28:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Howdy list, 
> 
> I've recently switched over to using mutt in an eterm session. One
> downside is that non-english characters show up as '?'. For example, I
> was just reading a mail from Rog?rio which I know isn't right... I'm
> sure there is probably some simple environment variable to set, but am
> clueless.
> 
> fwiw, 
> 
> andrew@basement:~$ locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> LC_NAME="POSIX"
> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> 
> I'm sure that's part of the problem....

nevermind. I put 'export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1' in my /etc/profile and
all is well.

A

> 
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