Re: charset fixing at display time
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:29:54AM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
>
> I am sorry, but I cannot set the locale of my system correctly. I have
> done dpkg-reconfigure locales and have chosen NL.nl@euro but still, when
> I type in 'locale', all I see is LANG=C and everything C. The system
> setting of locales has no effect on existing users, so it seems.
> Apologies if this is off topic, but all other programs, like VIM and
> Links, show the accents correctly; it's just Mutt that shows the accents
> as numbers.
links is a poor example since it's largely hardcoded.
vim also has fall-back mechanisms which may obscure your problem.
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