On Mon 09 Jun 03, 5:18 PM, Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:59:58PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > [...] > > as a first stab at getting utf-8 capable xterms, i set: > > > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > Locales do not work unless they are generated. Under Debian, run > dpkg-reconfigure locales and ask for en_US.UTF-8 and en_US.ISO-8859-1. > Your /etc/locale.gen should then look like mine: > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > As it says, run locale-gen. Then set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in all shells.
excellent! just like you said, everything Just Works. mutt threading looks the same as always. thanks henry! > Multibyte-supporting programs will Just Work. Multibyte-disabled software > will break, but you can then fall back on ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin1). > > As you already figured out, you need to use a UTF-8 capable terminal emulator > and a suitable font. Under the console, run unicode_start and UTF-8 should > start working. You may need to fiddle with console fonts as well. i didn't know how to change console fonts before. google rocks. :) just added utf encoding to vim. i think i'm now running fully utf-8. woo hoo! :) thanks henry! pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
