Quoth Nicolas Williams on Monday, 29 November 2010: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:50:08PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:52:22PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > inside rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.07 > > > > > > and I can't seem to get unicode characters to display properly. I have: > > > > > > set charset="utf-8" > > > > This comes up often enough that it should probably be a FAQ... > > > > First off, don't set charset. You shouldn't need to, and -- unless > > you're doing something very funky and you really, really know what > > you're doing -- having to do this means your environment is not set up > > properly. Most likely, setting this manually will only work against > > you. > > > > [...] > > +1 > > In general, using an off-the-shelf desktop on Linux/*BSD/Solaris should > cause everything to be in order, particularly if you use a UTF-8 locale > to begin with. > > When everything's in order (you have the necessary locales and fonts > installed, and you're using blessed desktops / start scripts) then you > will have the locale environment variables properly setup and your tools > will find their fonts/renderers and codeset conversion modules and so > on. Mutt too will be able to do codeset conversions and thus display > foreign characters to the best of your locale's ability. > > If you must use a non-UTF-8 locale yet want to be able to use UTF-8 for > your mutt instances (e.g., to be able to display more characters than > your locale allows, or to be able send mail using UTF-8 as your locale), > then you'll want to run a terminal emulator that allows you to pick an > encoding: set the encoding of the terminal where you run mutt to UTF-8, > make sure to change the locale env vars accordingly in that session, and > start mutt. For example, gnome-terminal allows you to set the encoding > on a per-tab basis. But it's better to just use a UTF-8 locale for all > your sessions and work. > > Nico > --
Thanks to everyone who offered advice. As usual in a case like this, I was overcomplicating the situation. All I needed to do was export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 prior to starting urxvt, and everything works as expected. Funny, uxterm worked OK with specifying the charset in .muttrc, but urxvt needed LC_CTYPE to be correct instead. Thanks again! -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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