> 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...
Thanks. I played with the charset variable in mutt, didn't seem to do much, except without it an "ê" comes out as a "?", while with it, (iso-8859-1 or "C"), and without LANG environment variable, it comes out as \352. However, if I set LANG to en_US (will play with other settings later), then the charset variable doesn't matter and "ê" comes out right. Thanks! What is the "LOCALE" environment variable for? Lastly I assume that if I set LANG to e.g. af_ZA, that this will impact language choice in certain applications, but there will be a neat fallback to... what, maybe en_US if something isn't specifically set right in af_ZA? > > 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", > 8**2 * 3 + 8**1 * 5 + 8**0 * 2 == 234 (base 10) Hmm, which matches 16*14+10==234 ... dem, must have made a calculation error previously. Stupid. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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