On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:49:23PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > On 09-Aug-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was having trouble with the display of special characters in mutt when > > logged in using ssh, and I found that the LANG environment variable is > > the culprit.
Since mutt was the only program that doesn't display these characters correctly, I searched the mutt mailing list archives. I still don't understand why unsetting LANG solves my problem, because the correct fix is to set LC_CTYPE to an appropriate value. > I've no idea what the cause of your problem is, AFAIK when LANG is unset, > programs should fall back to the default locale, which is 'C'. And on my box > 8bit chars are displayed correctly no matter what LANG is set to. Locale settings are not the same as LANG settings, LC_CTYPE is for character classification, and LANG is for displaying programs in different languages. Mutt uses both, so when I set LANG=dutch, I get a dutch interface, and when I set LC_CTYPE=dutch, I get special characters displayed right (although just setting LANG=dutch with LC_CTYPE unset fixes the locale settings too, strange enough). Wouter
