On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:10:29PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:54:15PM +0100, Peter Münster wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > > > However I can't seem to get mutt set up correctly, if I enter symbols > > > like GB pound signs or accented characters in an E-Mail then when I > > > view the E-Mail using mutt I see reverse video ? instead of the > > > correct characters. > > > > Hello Chris, > > > > Does the terminal use a font for utf8-encoding? > > You can test it like this: put a pound sign into a file and be sure, that > > this file is utf-8 encoded. Then try "cat file" in the terminal. > > > > To get the right font in my xterm, I have the following line in my > > .Xdefaults: > > xterm*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-*--20-*-iso10646-1 > > > Ah, you may have lead me in the right direction here. It's not that > the terminal is wrong but I *suspect* my editor may not be doing what > I think it is. I need to investigate further...... > Yes, that's it, *everything* was actually alright except my editor wasn't entering UTF-8 pounds signs (etc.). The rest of the system just did its best to work around the resulting confusion.
-- Chris Green
