On Fri, 11 May 2007 or thereabouts, Kyle Wheeler came forth with: > >> | $ locale > >roland@jr02:~$ locale > >locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > >locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or > >directory > >locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > Hmmm, that's bad. Let's see what it's complaining about: > >LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en > >LC_CTYPE="en_NZ" > >LC_MESSAGES="en_NZ" > >LC_ALL= > Well, LANGUAGE looks odd, and LC_ALL shouldn't be set at all unless > you really need it (which, chances are, you don't); LANG and LANGUAGE > are sufficient. Okay, I did some reading and did: dpkg-reconfigure locales, then update-locale LANG=en_NZ.ISO-8859-1, then restarted the box (it seemed to need it. I now get: roland@jr02:~$ locale LANG=en_NZ.ISO-8859-1 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en LC_CTYPE="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_NUMERIC="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_TIME="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_COLLATE="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_MONETARY="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_MESSAGES="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_PAPER="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_NAME="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_ADDRESS="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_TELEPHONE="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_NZ.ISO-8859-1" LC_ALL= ..............and, roland@jr02:~$ locale charmap ISO-8859-1 ..............and, roland@jr02:~$ locale -a | grep ^en_ en_AU en_AU.utf8 en_BW en_BW.utf8 en_CA en_CA.utf8 en_DK en_DK.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 en_HK en_HK.utf8 en_IE en_IE@euro en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NZ en_NZ.utf8 en_PH en_PH.utf8 en_SG en_SG.utf8 en_US en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 en_ZA en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW en_ZW.utf8 > If you refer to the output of `locale -a`, you do not have "en_NZ" as > an option, nor do you have "en_NZ:en". Those should be changed to > "en_NZ.utf8". And, if you're going to use UTF8, you should make sure > you are using terminals capable of displaying UTF8 (I don't know that > Eterm can, and gnome-terminal probably has to be configured properly > to do so). From the pictures you posted, it looks like neither of them > can display UTF8 characters. Try, just for grins using `uxterm`. I still think things arn't perfect, but I can now view the 'problem' mails correctly. Thanks to Alain, Kyle and others for helping. -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B
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