On Nov 12, 1999, David DeSimone wrote:
> Howard Arons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I simply cannot get Mutt to show German characters in the pager. The
> > characters either show up as ?'s or (worse yet) as Cyrillic-looking
> > letters...
>
> Are you running Mutt on the console? What font do you have loaded? ...
You're right on with that font question. I got to thinking about those
Cyrillic chars appearing no matter what I tried, so d/l'd the "The Linux
Keyboard and Console HOWTO" from sunsite. All was then revealed (well,
almost all; I still don't really understand Unicodes).
When I first installed my SuSE 5.2 distro 18 months ago, I made an
uninformed choice for a screen font--it turns out to have Cyrillic extended
characters :-( So, no amount of fooling around with locales, environment
vars, charsets, etc. was going to give me anything but Cyrillic.
I'm now loading 'lat1u-16.psf' as the screen font, because it contains its
own Unicode table (the "u" denotes that), it looks good and it gives me all
those umlauts and esszets.
Thanks to you and all who have responded to my past whining.
Howard Arons
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