Re: Unicode and Mutt
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:51:03PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > Did you try saving the messages and verifying that the saved messages
> > still display properly?
>
> Lots of people have been using Mutt with UTF-8 for years, and yes,
> this is known to work if your environment is set up correctly.
>
> > Where is LANG set?
>
> In the environment. See the man pages for locale(1) and environ(7) on
> your system, as well as the bash man page if you don't know how to set
> environment variables. You need to make sure it is set correctly so
> that iconv will convert (or not convert) the messages properly.
>
> You'll also need to use a unicode font with your xterm, AND make sure
> it has all the glyphs that you want to see... It sounds like you may
> already have that set up, but if you don't try adding either of
> these to your ~/.Xdefaults file:
>
> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
> XTerm*font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
>
> Both of these fonts have a very large number of character glyphs from
> most of the world's major languages, though in each font, at least a
> (different) subset of the Asian characters is missing.
>
> Then run this command:
>
> xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
>
> And after that, any new xterms you open should display characters
> properly. You may need to install the fonts first...
>
> Alternately, try running Mutt in a gnome-terminal window, which is
> built with libraries to select and display an appropriate font based
> on the natural language character set from which the characters
> originate. [Of course, you still need to have appropriate fonts
> installed for the language you want to see...]
>
> If you still need more help, google is rife with pages which describe
> how to configure your locale properly to display unicode correctly.
>
> --
> Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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Thanks very much for the info I thought I had everything set up for
Unicode, but the loss of the Russian and Asian glyphs in the saved
emails prove otherwise