On Sun, 13 May 2007 or thereabouts, Alain Bench came forth with: > On Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 14:37:14 +1200, Roland Hill wrote: > > $ echo $LANG > > en_NZ.UTF-8 > OK: For now, keep this one. And don't set $charset in muttrc: It is > supposed to take the good value automagically. Type ":set ?charset" > directly in Mutt to check it says charset="utf-8". Then take a look at > the garbled messages. > > LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en > That is a valid value: A colon-separated list of locales in prefered > order for messages. A sort-of super-LC_MESSAGES. However your setting is > not very interesting, so I'd tend to advice to unset it, and wipe it > from whatever startup file(s) do set it. But you can do as you like. Alain, I'll jump in at this point and say that I have made some changes since we started this in the interest of me trying to help myself. I posted a "SOLVED" followup, but maybe it isn't? I hope this hasn't wasted your time. Garbled messages are now fine. > Et merde! Sorry Roland, my mistake: I managed to give you a syntax > that your printf didn't like. Please excuse me, and run this instead: > | $ printf "L1: won\xB4t \xA8reply\xA8\nU8: won\xC2\xB4t > \xC2\xA8reply\xC2\xA8\n" Not near my server to produce pretty pictures, but on the: - L1 line I get "won't" correctly followed by a quote mark. - U8 line I get "won" followed by an "A with a caret on top" followed by an apostrophe and a "t". I then get "A with caret" quote mark "reply" "A with caret" quote mark. [snip all good TERM stuff I need to follow up on] Thanks again Alain. I have learnt something again and hope that this is solved, or nearly solved. -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B
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