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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:22:31PM -0400, dv1445@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I seem to have partially sovled the UTF-8 problem. It turns out that
> the problem was in my muttrc, which wants to see "set charset=UTF-8"
> instead of "=en_US.UTF-8", while the latter is what $LANG wants to
> see.
$LANG contains more information because it specifies more things.
Whereas "set charset" in .muttrc only specifies the character set /
character encoding to use, $LANG specifies the locale, of which the
character set is only a part.
The locale specifies
- the language to use for messages printed by the system ("error" in
English, "Fehler" in German),
- the date format (1/15/2007 in the US, 15.1.2007 in Europe)
- the currency and currency symbol,
- the decimal "point" and the thousands delimiter ($1,000.00 in the
US, EUR 1.000,00 in Germany)
and other things.
Kai