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Re: bug#1660: Repyling with extended charactors in the From:



On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
>  On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 12:51:09 PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > ANSI_X3.4-1968
> > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> 
>     Unconfigured locale, so it is defaulting to English and US-Ascii.
> This is the cause of the Ø 330 problem. There is no Mutt bug.

Well, im not sure i agree about there not being a bug. When i try to
reply, i expect mutt to at least be able to use the part within <> in
the From: line. ie

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind?= Harboe <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>

It might not be able to display =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind?= Harboe, but
i would expect it to be able to use the <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>.
But it does not. I just get a completely blank address. This means i
cannot reply. I have to cut&paste the address manually.

>     Setup correctly your locale to your language, country, and charset,
> and Mutt will be fine. I believe there is a Debian-specific helper
> utility for that. Quoting Christoph Berg on mutt-users list:
> 
> | On Debian/Woody, do:
> | # apt-get install locales (unless already installed)
> | # dpkg-reconfigure locales (unless already configured correctly)
> | $ export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (or what you chose in dpkg-reconfigure)
> 
>     Or the hard old way:
> 
> | $ locale --all-locales | grep _CH   # pick your country
> | de_CH
> | fr_CH
> | it_CH
> | $ export LC_CTYPE=fr_CH     # pick your language

This is not really a mutt question:

What do you do when that locale does not exist? I probably want

en_CH.ISO-8859-1

ie my mother language is English and i'm physically located in
Switzerland. 

             Andrew