Re: internal pager and 8-bit characters

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Stewart V. Wright wrote:

> G'day Andrei and Joan,
>
> * Andrei A. Voropaev <avorop@xxxxxxx> [031010 14:17]:
> > > 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.
>
> At least under RedHat 8 with gnome-terminal this doesn't work.  They
> _REALLY_ screwed up the character encoding when they went to utf-8.

It shouldn't work.  KOI8-R isn't UTF-8.

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