* Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010314 10:06 +0100:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > * Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010313 16:46 +0100:
> > [....]
> > > How do I get mutt to understand that 8-bit characters (well '?'
> > > anyway) are valid and shouldn't be changed at all? I've tried
> > > setting the LANG and/or LC_CTYPE variables but this seems to have no
> > > effect. What *exactly* should one set these variables to? Should it
> > > be a locale such as 'uk' or should it be a character set such as
> > > 'iso-8859-1'?
> >
> > I don't know about english locales, here's my setting. Just:
> >
> > LC_ALL=de_DE
> >
> > (see "locale -a")
> >
> "locale -a" returns a list as follows on the system in question
> (trimmed) :-
[snipped]
$ locale -a | grep en
en
en_AU
en_BW
en_CA
en_DK
en_GB
en_IE
en_US
en_ZW
> ... so should I be putting "export LC_ALL=uk"?
for bash:
export LC_ALL=en_GB
> mutt displays ????? for all its prompts. If I set LC_ALL to another
> language then I get prompts in that language but it still doesn't
> have any effect on the '\243' displayed instead of pound signs.
Hmmph. Don't know then, maybe a problem related to the terminal type.
Andre Berger [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
