David Thorburn-Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> % > [ character "´" ]
> %
> % I'm not sure why you're using the character above (value 0xB4).
>
> however, it looks pretty much like an apostrophe for me. So is it
> him or you?
Thanks for everyone pointing this out, it is me that has something set
wrong. But I am really not sure exactly how to fix it.
Normally I have my X terminal set up to use fonts with ISO-8859-1
encoding, which seems to be the most prevalent encoding in use; that's
why I usually don't see problems like this. However, this week I have
been transplanted to another site, where the terminal I'm using has been
set up (unknown to me until now) to use fonts with HP-Roman8 encoding.
The same sorts of characters are available, but their ordering is
different, which leads to the problems that I see.
In my normal HPUX environment, I find that I must set an environment
variable LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso88591" in order to see and use these
extended characters. Now that I realize that I have set the
variable incorrectly for my font settings, I tried changing it, to
LC_CTYPE="en_US.roman8". However, this has no effect on Mutt; it
continues to show the character incorrectly, even though Mutt knows the
incoming character set, and the character set that ought to be used for
my display.
I remember some rumblings on the mutt-dev list, where some people had
worked really hard to get Mutt to start working correctly with character
sets, with databases to help convert between them. I was expecting Mutt
to do that re-encoding for me, but it appears that it does not. How can
I go about fixing this?
I tried searching through the directory /opt/mutt/lib/mutt/charsets,
where I found these files:
ansi-x3-110-1983
charsets.alias
charsets.alias.dist
What are in these files, and how do I use them to help Mutt show me what
I want to see on my screen? Their contents are mostly incomprehensible
to me.
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