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Re: mutt to show hi-bit chars once & for all?



On Sat 09/24/05 at 10:00 PM -0400,
Russell Hoover <rj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Right now I've got this:
> 
> [panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1010 --> locale
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=""
> [panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1010 -->


I've changed this.  I now have set (and exported) _only_ LANG, as per
your advice.  I set it to "en_US.ISO8859-1".  I commented out the
LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES.  So now when I run the "locale" command
at my shell prompt, I get this:

[panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1001 --> locale
LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_ALL=""
[panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1002 -->

i.e.,  all three settable "locale" settings are the same, at
"en_US.ISO8859-1".

(Though in mutt, I have still left 'charset' unset, and "set ?charset"
still returns:  charset="iso-8859-1".)

But:    1002 --> echo "äü" | iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8
still returns:

äü

That is, capital-A-with-tilde, box, capital-A-with-tilde
(again), and the mathematical Pi sign.  This is in _both_ Mutt
and Vim.

Meanwhile, I am currently reading through
<http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/>

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