On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:07:58PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > 'scuse me, this is irritating me too much at the moment. I did some > research to find it out myself, but clearly didn't look in the right > places, while I can continue looking, maybe someone can save me time > during my test week and just point in the right direction? > > I am trying to figure out the LOCALE stuff and character set settings. > Where can I find out what and how to setup my locale (does that include > language settings etc.)? Secondly, how does one control the character > set? I assume it defaults to an iso-8859-1 character set? I have tried > setting mutt's "$charset" to iso-8859-1, but an email with:
Easiest thing to do is set the LANG variable in one or both of /etc/environment or ~/.bashrc. The default character set should be "C" (aka ASCII). For instance, I have LANG="en_US" (which translates to iso-8859-1 for the character set, and changes collating slightly). Choose whatever is appropriate for your language/nationality... > Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 > > and an e^ (ê) comes out as "\352". (What is 352 anyway? Should be one > byte? So what, octal?) The "source" of the email is encoded as "=EA", > this is as I remember it from my pine days, and it did work well in > pine. (I set my charset to iso-8859-1 as well, iirc.) 8**2 * 3 + 8**1 * 5 + 8**0 * 2 == 234 (base 10) -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
