Re: e-mail encoding/formatting (was Re: Split-screen mode in mutt?)
Thus spake Kyle Wheeler on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:07:32AM -0400 or
thereabouts: <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-05-02 23:08]:
> On Tuesday, May 2 at 01:39 AM, quoth cga2000:
> >>> I probably just need to change my locale to UTF-8 and switch to a
> >>> terminal that supports unicode, I guess..?
> >>
> >> Probably. The only gotcha might be a good ncurses library.
> >
> > .. depends what you mean by "good" - it's the one that came with debian
> > sarge originally.. how can I test/verify its "goodness"?
>
> When you compile mutt,
Thanks, Kyle.. but I do not dare do that on my debian system.
> one of the things it checks for is the
> waddnwstr function, which is only supported in an ncurses library that
> can handle wide characters.
well I thought what the heck.. proof of the pudding is in the eating..
so I did the following:
1. commented out the translit thing in my .muttrc
2. dpkg-reconfigured locales and made en-us.UTF8 the default
3. fired up a linux console and ran /usr/bin/unicode-start
4. started mutt and “screen” - & other curly quotes.. display correctly
.. so I would understand that my ncurses lib is "good enough".
As to entering all those funky digraphs myself, I'm not going to
bother.. but as far as displaying message contents and especially the
names of their authors I find this setup a lot more satisfying than my
current LANG=en.us.
.. now tomorrow, I will check that this also works in an xterm.
Thanks to all those who participated in this sub-thread..
cga