Re: internal pager and 8-bit characters

["Andrei A. Voropaev" <avorop@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:58:10PM +0200, Joan Picanyol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mutt's internal pager does not show me accents and stuff, I see things
> like this:
> 
> Aix\362 ser\340 en el m\363n de la far\340ndula
> 
> instead of like this:
> 
> Aix? ser? en el m?n de la far?ndula
> 
> This happens if I'm on a virtual terminal or an Xterm or ssh'in from
> somewhere else. The OS is FreeBSD-stable.
> 
> Are there any workarounds? What's the cause for it? I'm attaching the
> output of mutt -v for reference.

You should setup your locale. For example I have to set
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R to be able to see russian letters.

Andrei