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 is not related to the charset variable. I don't even use 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 Version 1.3.28 is obsolete.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). > -terminal-based emacs (emacs -nw, which I use to write emails, especially > when I'm not at my desk) will not display accented charactersm. > When I try to type them in using the us-with-deadkeys keyboard, > emacs freaks out and sometimes crashes. I don't use us-with-deadkeys, just direct accented characters. I have the following in my .emacs if this may help you... (standard-display-european 1) (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 0)) > well, I use the command "export", eg, "export $LANG=en_US.UTF-8" without the $, I suppose. -- Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Math�matiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]