Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Henrik Enberg
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> This is archaic. Use the below instead. >> >> (set-language-environment "Latin-1") > > thanks, I'll try it > >> >> `set-keyboard-coding-system' might be of interest too. > > ooh, sounds good -- do I put that in .emacs in the same format as > above (

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
> > This is archaic. Use the below instead. > > (set-language-environment "Latin-1") thanks, I'll try it > > `set-keyboard-coding-system' might be of interest too. ooh, sounds good -- do I put that in .emacs in the same format as above (parameter-name-here "value") ? thx, m -- To UNSUB

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Henrik Enberg
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (standard-display-european 1) This is archaic. Use the below instead. (set-language-environment "Latin-1") `set-keyboard-coding-system' might be of interest too. -- Booting... /vmemacs.el -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
hi nori, been following your postings on locales; > > what's the output of `locale`? > here it is: matt@anarres:~$ locale 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" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PA

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
thanks, but didnĀ“t seem to help. see in line: > this variable. First, you need to upgrade. Version 1.3.28 is obsolete. > IIRC, iconv support was recently rewritten; perhaps you have the old > version in 1.3.28 (I don't remember). upgraded to 4.0.4 (testing); no difference in performance. > I

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:47:39AM -0500, Matt Price insinuated: > -mutt simply WON'T display accented characters properly\. > Depending on whether I set the CHARSET variable (in .muttrc) to > UTF-8 or iso-8859-1, accented characters display as ? or \xxx (a > three-digit numerical dcode). what's

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:47:39 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > -mutt simply WON'T display accented characters properly\. Depending > on whether I set the CHARSET variable (in .muttrc) to UTF-8 or > iso-8859-1, accented characters display as ? or \xxx (a three-digit > numerical dcode). AFAIK, t

Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Price
hi, sorry to take a whie responding back to this thread. Ie been trying out various solutions proposed here, in other threads from the last month or so, and in a couple of places on the web. I haven't been able to fix my problem, but I can gve a more precise description of it now. The Problem

Re: locales and terminal

2002-10-23 Thread Claudio Bley
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 13:50, Matt Price wrote: > I've recently started geting emails in french and german that I need > to be able read. And I'd like to be able to respond to them in french > and german as well... > > so I set LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 . Is this variable exported to other programs?

Re: locales and terminal

2002-10-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 15:18:03 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Not sure if this helps anything, but 'uxterm', is able to handle various > charactersets, while the ordinary xterm can only handle ASCII chars. s/ASCII/ISO-8859-1/. But uxterm is rather buggy. With Mutt, characters appear at random place

Re: locales and terminal

2002-10-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Matt Price wrote: > hi, > > I've browsedsome recent posts but didn't see a direct answer, sorry if > I'm being repetitive. > > I've recently started geting emails in french and german that I need > to be able read. And I'd like to be able to respond to them in french > a

locales and terminal

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Price
hi, I've browsedsome recent posts but didn't see a direct answer, sorry if I'm being repetitive. I've recently started geting emails in french and german that I need to be able read. And I'd like to be able to respond to them in french and german as well... so I set LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 . but