Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
hi, sorry to take a whie responding back to this thread. Ie been trying out various solutions proposed here, in other threads from the last month or so, and in a couple of places on the web. I haven't been able to fix my problem, but I can gve a more precise description of it now. The

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:47:39 -0500, Matt Price wrote: -mutt simply WON'T display accented characters properly\. Depending on whether I set the CHARSET variable (in .muttrc) to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1, accented characters display as ? or \xxx (a three-digit numerical dcode). AFAIK, this

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:47:39AM -0500, Matt Price insinuated: -mutt simply WON'T display accented characters properly\. Depending on whether I set the CHARSET variable (in .muttrc) to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1, accented characters display as ? or \xxx (a three-digit numerical dcode). what's

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
thanks, but didnĀ“t seem to help. see in line: this variable. First, you need to upgrade. Version 1.3.28 is obsolete. IIRC, iconv support was recently rewritten; perhaps you have the old version in 1.3.28 (I don't remember). upgraded to 4.0.4 (testing); no difference in performance. I

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
hi nori, been following your postings on locales; what's the output of `locale`? here it is: matt@anarres:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Henrik Enberg
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (standard-display-european 1) This is archaic. Use the below instead. (set-language-environment Latin-1) `set-keyboard-coding-system' might be of interest too. -- Booting... /vmemacs.el -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Henrik Enberg
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is archaic. Use the below instead. (set-language-environment Latin-1) thanks, I'll try it `set-keyboard-coding-system' might be of interest too. ooh, sounds good -- do I put that in .emacs in the same format as above (parameter-name-here