On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
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> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little
> arrows in mutt's index.
Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly,
depending on how mutt is started. I think the best test is to use "!" to
run "locale" from within mutt. Does that show all settings are correct?
> Also a lot of manpages don't show correctly.
That could be a terminal or font problem (see below); sometimes,
however, the manpages themselves are to blame.
> I have to set LC_CTYPE to a non utf-8 locale.
>
> But I wonder if it is also the choice of console font.
Try these simple tests:
echo -e " 303 244"
should give you an "ä" (lowercase a-umlaut) on a utf-8 terminal. If you
see two characters instead it means that your terminal does not use
utf-8. If you get one "placeholder" symbol, e.g. an empty square or a
question mark, then your font does not provide the a-umlaut character.
The a-umlaut is not a particularly fancy character, so you should also
try this:
echo -e " 342 224 224 342 224 200 076"
should give you "└─>" (mutt's arrow showing a reply in a thread).
mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)
