On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...]
> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > arrows in mutt's index. Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly, depending on how mutt is started. I think the best test is to use "!" to run "locale" from within mutt. Does that show all settings are correct? > Also a lot of manpages don't show correctly. That could be a terminal or font problem (see below); sometimes, however, the manpages themselves are to blame. > I have to set LC_CTYPE to a non utf-8 locale. > > But I wonder if it is also the choice of console font. Try these simple tests: echo -e "\0303\0244" should give you an "ä" (lowercase a-umlaut) on a utf-8 terminal. If you see two characters instead it means that your terminal does not use utf-8. If you get one "placeholder" symbol, e.g. an empty square or a question mark, then your font does not provide the a-umlaut character. The a-umlaut is not a particularly fancy character, so you should also try this: echo -e "\0342\0224\0224\0342\0224\0200\0076" should give you "└─>" (mutt's arrow showing a reply in a thread). -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |
