Re: Charset ? mutt issue?

[stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:56:01AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, March 19 at 11:09 AM, quoth stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >I have an issue whereby when I recieve an email with an English pound
> >sign in it £ it is displayed as this --> "\243" [without quotes] or
> >somtimes it looks like "??".
> >I am not sure if it is a mutt issue or a a system one but I suspect
> >mutt.
> >My system is as follows :-
> >Gentoo linux
> >mutt 1.5.11
> >running under aterm.
> 
> I suspect your terminal charset and/or font. When you run ?locale? 
> what do you get? When you run this:
> 
>    perl -e 'printf("%c\n", 0243)'
> 
> What do you get? What is the value of send_charset in your muttrc?
> 
> You are sending mail with the charset ?unknown-8bit?, so I?m guessing 
> that you have a locale issue.
> 
> Try setting LC_CTYPE to something like en_US.UTF-8 (depending on what 
> you can find in the output of ?locale -a?).
> 
> ~Kyle
> -- 
> There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice . . . It 
> justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination 
> than any other sort of error in the world.
>                                                          -- H. G. Wells


thanks for the reply
I have got somewhere after some messing about, 
my output from locale was 
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"

I have added to my .bashrc
export LANG="en_GB.iso885915"
export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.iso885915"

this means that I now have this from locale
LANG=en_GB.iso885915
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso885915

and YES my £ signs are now £ signs :)

I thought I would now set the send_charset in .muttrc, at the moment I
have nothing there at all.
I have taken a look at the manual and it recommends multiple entries, so
I have added the default as given 
set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"

Does this seem reasonable? 

stu