Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Matt Price wrote:
> hi, > > I've browsedsome recent posts but didn't see a direct answer, sorry if > I'm being repetitive. > > I've recently started geting emails in french and german that I need > to be able read. And I'd like to be able to respond to them in french > and german as well... > > so I set LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 . > > but this does not allow the display of the relevant accented > characters. Instead, I get a variety of responses from different > programs -- emacs gives ?'s, cat gives funny hieroglyphics, and mutt > in the default pager gives what I take are numerical character codes, > eg \344 . > > so what's the problem? do I need a different system font or > something? I would have thought locales would take care of that... > Not sure if this helps anything, but 'uxterm', is able to handle various charactersets, while the ordinary xterm can only handle ASCII chars. Greetz, Sebastiaan > the other thing is, when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales, it doesn't > let me set the default locale. The menu dialog comes up, but there > are no choices. Could these things be related? > > I've been avoidingthis problem, but since I'm a european historian I'm > really getting to the point where I have to be able to read and write > in other languages... any help, or pointers to really good > documentation/how-tos, would be extremely appreciated. > thanks, > matt > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
