On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:57:13AM +0100, Gerhard Häring wrote: > Le 07/01/02 ? 22:57, Walt Mankowski écrivit: > > I recently tried out mutt 1.3.25. This is my first look at the 1.3.* > > series of mutt. One thing I noticed right away is that mutt is no > > longer display accented characters correctly. On the index screen > > they appear as question marks. When viewing the text of an email, > > they appear as octal with a "/" in front of them. > > In my experience an appropriate locale must be set or else the characters are > considered "non-printable". > > Here's the relavant part from my bash .profile file: > > export LANG=en_IE@euro > export LC_ALL=en_IE@euro > export LANGUAGE=en_IE@euro > export LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro
(Beeing in Germany) I only defined export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO_8859-1 That does the trick. At least for accents and umlauts. Tobias. PS: Isn't this some kind of FAQ?
