Re: Problem in mutt editor, not in less
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 01:06:27AM +0100, Alain Bench wrote :
> Salut Bruno,
>
> Le vendredi 8 décembre 2006 à 21:11:03 +0100, Bruno Delalleau écrivait:
>
> > "Pour vous d\351sabonner :" when I use mutt editor.
>
> Such octalization generaly points to a broken locale. Your
> environment is correct, so perhaps the said locale is not installed.
> Check what's really available:
>
> | $ locale -a | grep fr_FR
> | fr_FR
> | fr_FR.ASCII
> | fr_FR.CP1252@euro
> | fr_FR.CP437
> | fr_FR.CP850
> | fr_FR.EUC-JISX0213
> | fr_FR.EUC-JP
> | fr_FR.EUC-JP-MS
> | fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
> | fr_FR.ISO-8859-15@euro
> | fr_FR.UTF-8
> | fr_FR.UTF-8@euro
>
Here: locale -a | grep fr_FR
gives only fr_FR.utf8
I see that I have a problem; I will make a dpkg-reconfigure locales
and let you know if the problem disappears.
Just for your information my terminal is rxvt-unicode.
>
> So your terminal's charset is *not* UTF-8, but Latin-1 or 9. Your
> locale must follow this: Export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 or else.
>
> | $ printf "d\0351sabonner\n"
> | désabonner
>
I also get désabonner.
> Unrelated: Your $send_charset is suboptimal. Reset it to the
> default, or better.
>
Please what do you call "suboptimal"? I have currently:
send_charset="utf-8:iso-8859-15"
Don't laugh at me, if it is crazy ! What do you suggest?
> Bye! Alain.
Thanks!
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Bruno Delalleau
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