On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:29:51PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to learn how to write text in French so that I can send > properly accented emails to a friend of mine. Unfortunately we're having a > problem with the accents that I'm sending through. He's using KMail, and > I'm using Mutt (not that it should matter)... > > I have the following set in .muttrc: > set allow_8bit > set charset="iso-8859-15" > set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15" > > I am setting my keyboard layout with the following (I've left the comments > in just in case anyone else is interested in being able to switch > keyboards but never knew how before now). > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" > # unfortunately us_intl cannot be combined with another > # keyboard mapping. "fr" gives the french keyboard layout > # NOTE: this is NOT QWERTY! > # test settings with: xprop -root |grep _XKB > # change the setting with: > # sudo setxkbmap us_intl > #Option "XkbLayout" "us,fr" > #Option "XKbOptions" "grp:shift_toggle" > EndSection > > So all of this is fine and lovely...but something's going wrong when I > send out the email. My friend is getting Z with a ^ instead of accented > characters when he tries to read my mail. I can read his mail with no > problems though (i.e. my mail with my accents quoting his mail with his > accents works perfectly). As best I can figure out there may be a problem > with the fact that I'm sending: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > whereas my friend's email gets sent through as: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Is that the problem, or does the problem lie somewhere else? > > My accented characters look like this: � é á î ç (etc). That should be e`, e�, > a�, i^ c,. > > I'm not even sure where to look for the solution. As best as I try to > understand character encodings it always manages to muddle my brain. :/ >
Check your locale. Right now this is mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I know that if I change it to UTF8, or latin1 with euro, garbage is generated (why, I don't know. It shouldn't be) I am able to switch beteween spanish and english layouts using an XF86Config similar to your setting. áéíóú, äëïöü, ñÑ, çÇ ¡¿?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
