On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:42:23PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my > > system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending > > ISO-8852-1 mails?) > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > 'env' gives: > > kloro@debian:~$ env > ... > LC_ALL=en_US > ... > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > ... > LANGUAGE=en_US > ... > > does this not give what LC_ALL is set to? > > 'locale' gives: > > kloro@debian:~$ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=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=en_US I'm not an expert, but I think it's not very wise to mix locales. Set everything to en_US.UTF-8 try again. > what are 'ISO-8852-1 mails'? Your kmail was not set to send UTF-8 mails (did you change this?), but used the encoding ISO-8859-1 for the previous mail, that's why the smiley face you meant to send came up ... a bit different :) It's probably not related to your problem. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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