Along this same line, is there a locale setting which would allow mutt to display non-English characters? Now they all show up as "?".
Bob On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:37:46PM -0400, David P James wrote: > Colin Watson was roused into action on 2002-10-07 12:01 and wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:06:31AM -0400, David P James wrote: > > > > >> > >>I did this, and the right format is used, but unfortunately the '-'s > >>were replaced by other characters. This is somewhat frustrating; for > >>starters, why is the default date format on the 'internationalist' > >>Debian OS the illogical US standard? > > > > > >There's nothing we can do about it: it's how the C locale is defined. > > > > > >>And second, why is there no easy-to-use ISO format date? Right now I'm > >>using the German standard, which is better than what I had, but still > >>not what I want. > > > > > >There's en_DK, which despite being a "joke invention" > >(http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2001-April/001727.html) seems to > >produce what you want. > > > > Thank you Colin. Sorry if I sounded a bit terse earlier; I had just gone > through the process of generating half a dozen or so different locales > with none of them turning out to use the ISO format. I had begun to > wonder what en_DK was though, as I could figure out most of the rest (I > knew DK was Denmark but English_Denmark didn't seem to make any sense). > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]