On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:34:58 -0500, "David T-G" wrote: > > % Tim Freedom wrote: > % > ... > % I was able to resolve my own problem (thanks to the few people that > % replied and helped). It related to setting a correct locale value. > > Oh, locale... Right. I just got bitten by that with the GNU fileutils. > What a pain :-)
It is indeed and there is ambiguity involved too; as noted the man pages were of no use - looks like everyone dealing with locales ends-up doing lots of trial-n-error to figure out what the heck is happening and thus my question/suggestion below :-) > % Out of curiosity, why doesn't mutt enable utf-8 natively and by > % default ? Are there any adverse affects if that were to happen ? > > You mean override the LC_* variables? I should think that would be > obvious, so perhaps I've misunderstood your question. If someone would like to use utf-8 irrespective of the locale setting, he/she ought to be able to do that, no ? There are lots of applications out there that allow for that (vim, less, etc) via a command-line option (environmental variable or even a compile-time option). What I was getting at is there seem to be some applications out there that support utf-8 irrespective of the locale setting (if the user opts to go that way) and it would be useful to have a similar option in mutt (I wouldn't have had this adventure if a '--enable-utf-8' option existed :-). Cheers, .tf. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
