On Wednesday 03.03.1999 David DeSimone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Dirk Foersterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Then you may have a problem with your locale settings. Try setting
> > > the envionment variable LC_CTYPE (or LC_ALL, LANG) to some value
> > > supporting iso-8859-1 (e.g. "de_DE").
> >
> > I tried this now, but this doesn't help anything.
>
> Well, every OS implements locales differently. We can't give you a
> specific formula for setting your $LANG environment variable, because we
> don't know what locales are available on your OS. You will have to give
> us more info (such as the "mutt -v" output).
[snip]
mutt -v outputs are in my original post. My locale support is helplessly
broken. Even with
bash> /usr/sbin/locale
LANG=de
LC_COLLATE="de"
LC_CTYPE="de"
LC_MONETARY="de"
LC_NUMERIC="de"
LC_TIME="de"
LC_MESSAGES="de"
LC_ALL=de
which is contained in
bash> /usr/sbin/locale -a
POSIX
cz
da
de
es
fi
fr
it
nl
no
pl
pt
sv
nothing will work correctly. I expected this locale setting would at
least allow the typical german characters display correctly. But this
isn't the case. My system installation is a little old it seems...
> This is not really a "Mutt is doing something wrong" problem. This is a
> "Mutt is trying to be smarter than it used to be, and is failing because
> you haven't given it enough information" type of problem.
I expected this. I didn't tell that mutt is doing something wrong but
that I encounter the problem within mutt only.
-dirk
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