On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I find it simplest by far to run mutt in a UTF-8 locale, at which point > > it can deal with accented characters from a wide range of languages > > without me having to intervene further. You'll need a terminal emulator > > that can cope (I have personal experience of pterm and uxterm) and a > > suitable font (your terminal emulator may or may not sort this out for > > you; with pterm it's easiest to pick a font). > > Regardless of whether I'm using pterm or Eterm switching to UTF-8 does > not solve any problems. In fact it CREATES more problems! Setting mutt to: > set charset="utf-8" > gives me a capital A with a ~ on top instead of correctly mapping as lower > case a with an accent grave on top.
I don't use 'set charset'; I simply make sure that the terminal is running in UTF-8 mode and that my locale is UTF-8. mutt seems to just work at that point. > > > according to /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian > <snip> > > > But I've tried setting the LC_CTYPE="[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15" to no avail. > > > > That's not a legal value for LC_CTYPE, incidentally; > > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-15 would be better, or (if you take my approach) > > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 for Unicode. > > Where would I get legal values for LC_CTYPE? The instructions said to read > my /etc/locale.gen file and what I have is definitely listed there. > fr_CA ISO-8859-1 > fr_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8 > fr_FR ISO-8859-1 > fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] UTF-8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 The format of that file is <locale> <charset>. Entries in the left-hand column should be legal LC_CTYPE values, although they're not the only possible values. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]