* Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm getting a few strange characters in some of my email messages > read with mutt. For example, here's a extract from a message I > received today: > > X-Mailer: VCI WebMail > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > the intent to use them, and don\222t see much posted here on their > > Based on a thread I read in debian-devel concerning accents in foreign > languages, I think my problem has something to do with my environment > settings (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL), but I can't seem to figure out > what I need. > > I've got these language-like environment variables set: > > LANG=en_US > LC_CTYPE=en_US > > but I've also tried setting LANGUAGE and LC_ALL to en_US, with > no success in mutt. > > My /etc/locales.gen looks like this: > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > > I'm running an up to date sid system (synced this morning, although > I've always had this problem with mutt, as far as I know).
Hey Christopher. You're not alone on this one. I've been flogging this carcass for a few weeks now (as a background task). Where did you get the LC_CTYPE=en_US bit from? I have the following in my .bashrc file: LANGUAGE=en_UK LANG=en_UK ... export LANGUAGE LANG Although I still get umlauts and other things coming up as octal escape sequences, too :( Maybe it should have been in .bash_profile, so it's there at login? Or did I get that wrong? --This level of mucking about is all new to me. Does LC_ALL need to be defined and exported, too? Cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")