On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:56 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:34:38PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > From the description you gave above, it sounds like you should have > > everything needed to at least display Japanese, so what exactly goes > > wrong? Can you for example copy text from the Japanese Wikipedia to > > gnome-terminal? > > Well, your question made me investigate a bit more, and I discovered > that I am indeed able to see Japanese text... sometimes at least. > > I copied text from Japanese Wikipedia, and it is copied correctly into > gnome-terminal. I can 'cat' emails in Japanese and I see them. I > alternate between locales ISO-8859-1 and EUC-JP, without problem. What I > *cannot* do is read these emails in mutt/jed (I use jed as the editor > for mutt). I see things like: > > ^[$B3'MM$+$i$NB??t$N%;%C%7%g%sDs0F$r$*BT$A$$$?$7$F$*$j$^$9!#^[(J > > Reading the email as a usual file with jed also fails. I would say the > problem is jed. Except that when I read the folder list with mutt > subjects also come out wrong; or when I simply read the mail, and I > understand jed is not involved here. > > So any ideas on how to fix mutt/jed? My problem seems to be > specifically to read mails in Japanese with mutt. I could change the > editor to xemacs, but 1) I'd prefer to stay with jed because it's > faster; 2) problems with reading mail and subject list would not be > solved by changing the editor.
You might want to change to an rxvt that does unicode or kxvt. It appears that mutt/jed are having a tough time picking up the right encoding from gnome-terminal. Some old hacks (from 2004) on the jed-users mailing list show this for jed, fixing russian input and reading issues. Sheesh: http://www.tlug.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/node42.html Long time for this problem to persist. Looks like a kanji enabled rxvt is the ticket. You might also want to submit a bug against gnome-terminal for this. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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