Re: Mutt on OSX: 8 bit problems
On Mar 12, Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You should set LANG to the same encoding as your terminal.
> In OSX's Terminal the setting is in Terminal, Window Settings, Display,
> Character Set Encoding. It should be set to UTF-8, which means that you
> should use an UTF-8 encoding, such as LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 Does it work?
> Plain fi_FI uses one of the Western encodings (don't ask me which one)
> but you can't use it or things will break when you browse OS X folders.
I'm still experimenting... One question in the process: is .bashrc
*the* correct way to set locales in OSX, or have I missed something?
> By the way, try out the real xterm (open X11), it's much faster.
It is - i use the real xterm on my linux workstation at my office.. On
my mac I use iTerm - a new version of iTerm with a lot of bugfixes
has appeared, and it feels quite usable now. Melts nicely into the
environment..