I'm still trying to get 8-bit characters displayed correctly when I'm
in the mutt pager. I've been playing with this on and off for a
while now and it's really getting me annoyed - more from the point of
view that I can't find how to fix it than that it's really important!
I run mutt on this system (Slackware I think, running kernel 2.2.17)
remotely via telnet (well, ssh actually) from a Sun Solaris 2.6 system.
In the mutt pager 8-bit characters (the GB pound sign is the most
frequent one) used to display as '?', now I've moved to a more recent
development version of mutt they display as '\nnn' (i.e. the pound
sign is '\243'). Other programs (vi, cat, more) display the
characters correctly because they do nothing and the Sun's terminal
windows are set up correctly for the UK character set.
How do I get mutt to understand that 8-bit characters (well '£'
anyway) are valid and shouldn't be changed at all? I've tried
setting the LANG and/or LC_CTYPE variables but this seems to have no
effect. What *exactly* should one set these variables to? Should it
be a locale such as 'uk' or should it be a character set such as
'iso-8859-1'?
Any other suggestions gratefully received.
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