Re: mutt, fedora & accents
Hi,
Am Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:36:10PM -0800 schrieb Carlos Puchol:
> [note: i sent this to the fedora core desktop list, but
> i got no replies. i was expecting/hoping that accents (at least
> for west european languages) would be available by default.]
>
> hi,
>
> am having an issue where i cannot see accents with the mutt version shipping
> with fedora core 1. i remember the last time i had to configure this
> it was changing some mutt settings or perhaps some environment
> settings, but i cannot remember what was changed.
>
> i will see things like this:
>
> confirmaci?n de recepci?n
>
> or
>
> direcci\363n
>
> i am not putting the literal text here, i am just copying what i see so that
> you guys see the same.
>
> if i look at the file with vim, it looks ok.
> i also tried comparing with some othre machine (about redhat 7.3, i think it
> is)
> where this was configured properly.
>
> i have checked that this happens when remotely logged in from a machine
> where this works, to avoid issues with gnome-terminal. still happens.
> i have tried set charset="iso-8859-1" in my .muttrc files (which btw
> are identical in my two machines under test), but seems to make no difference.
>
> fedora has mutt-1.4.1-4.
> the other machine is mutt-1.2.5.1-1.
I think, the best is to change the charset settings system-wide (0r,
what do you think?). Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit the file i18n.
See more documentation on the issue at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html
Tibor