On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:53:16PM +0200, Steve S wrote: > Hi all > > I got a mail with german umlauts: äöüß which are displayed as \374 and such in > the pager. The message has no Content-Type header. In w3m and with less, I see > placeholders where the umlauts should be. I believe the message is > latin1-encoded, b/c opening it in vim, it says: "fileencoding=latin1" (vim > displays the special chars correctly). Also > > $ iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 file > file.new > > produces a correctly encoded message (can view it in less etc without > placeholders for äü...) > > My locale settings are > > -------------------------- > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
Consider setting LC_COLLATE="C" That way the output from ls -l will be more easily readable, although you may prefer the output with the current setting. :-) -- Chris. ====== "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed
