Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > slightly updated version is now also at: > http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO > http://people.debian.org/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO
I'm glad you've written that HOWTO. It encourages me to take a look at entering UTF-8 with X, instead of entering all non-ASCII stuff with Emacs, which is what I currently do. Some comments: (1) If you did your document as HTML, even with the whole text in <PRE>...</PRE>, then you could use <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> in the HEAD and it would look right with most browsers. How to put up a web page in UTF-8 might be something worth adding to the document in any case, and an easy way to explain would be to make your document into an example. (2) I think the best way to set up the UTF-8 locale is to edit /etc/locale.gen, rather than run localedef by hand, but you have to run locale-gen after editing /etc/locale.gen, and I don't think you mention that. (3) > mutt: > mutt should be able to figure out you are using utf-8 from your > locale, you can force it by putting > set charset="utf-8" > into /etc/Muttrc, and if incoming mails have correct headers, > they will be displayed correctly (unfortunately, many mails (especially > those originating in Russia) claim to be in incorrect encoding, > mostly in iso-8859-1 - there is nothing to be done, except of > saving the message and converting it with konwert or iconv) You shouldn't set charset in /etc/Muttrc, as that would force Mutt into UTF-8 even for users with non-UTF-8 locales. It's better to let Mutt look at the locale, so advise people NOT to set the charset explicitly. They can check that Mutt has picked up the appropriate charset from the locale by typing ":set charset=" followed by TAB. If you get a message with the wrong charset in the header, you can correct it with ":exec edit-type". If it happens a lot you could define a single key for the whole operation. > start xterm -u8, type You don't need "-u8" with sufficiently recent xterms; xterm looks at the locale. > There are many graphical glitches with all ncurses and slang applications. > Just remember to press CTRL+L :-) Er, yes. I have modified slang to work in UTF-8, but the modified slang is not binary-compatible with standard slang, so it won't become part of Debian very soon. However, if you want to avoid graphical glitches with Mutt you can statically link it against a hacked slang, as described in http://rano.org/mutt.html ... but there's no need to mention that in the HOWTO, of course - it would probably put people off when, as you say, Ctrl-L is a perfectly good work-around for many people. By the way, does the current version of Lynx work correctly in a UTF-8 locale, modulo graphical glitches? If it does, there's no need to mention it, but you used to need to configure it a bit to make it work in a UTF-8 xterm, which would be worth mentioning if it's still the case. Edmund
