On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Maurer wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> I've got a question concerning German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) in headers of
> a mail. Mutt is able to show them in a correct way, if I receive
> any mail containing correctly encoded Umlaute in the header. It is
> also able to correctly encode such characters if i use them by
> editing the headers in my preferred editor (i.e. vi) having the
> $edit_headers variable set.
>
> But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and
> would like to be able to enter characters like "ä", "ö" or "ü" in
> the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail.
>
> But on my system hitting an "ä" does not cause any action, hitting
> "ü" returns a "_" and so on.
>
> Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so...
> Can anybody help?
>
> My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to "de_DE" and
> the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode.
'./configure --enable-locale-fix' helped me to display raw 8bit on the
terminal. Where can I find any doc on LANG variable? If "de_DE" is for
German, what code is for Korean?
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