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Re: latin1: german umlauts not displayed correctly



On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:53:16PM +0200, Steve S wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I got a mail with german umlauts: äöüß which are displayed as \374 and such in
> the pager. The message has no Content-Type header. In w3m and with less, I see
> placeholders where the umlauts should be.  I believe the message is
> latin1-encoded, b/c opening it in vim, it says: "fileencoding=latin1" (vim
> displays the special chars correctly). Also
>     
>     $ iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 file > file.new 
> 
> produces a correctly encoded message (can view it in less etc without
> placeholders for äü...)
> 
> My locale settings are
> 
> --------------------------
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

Consider setting LC_COLLATE="C"

That way the output from ls -l will be more easily readable, although
you may prefer the output with the current setting. :-)

-- 
Chris.
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