On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a > > > question > > > mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand > > > what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of > > > fundamentals. > > > > > > 1) what is the default encoding of my debian system? > > > > On new Etch installs, UTF-8 is the default. On older systems, it depends > > on you locale (I'm not sure if a system upgraded to Etch would be UTF-8 > > or not). In the US it would be ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15, I think. Use the > > command "locale" and see what it says. Mine says en_US.UTF-8 > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > arrows in mutt's index. Also a lot of manpages don't show correctly.
I have not real insight into this other than to point out that at some point a few months ago, this mutt-arrow problem showed up in sid and then magically went away after a while. By that I mean that there seem to be some transitional issues that end up sorting themselves out somewhere between etch and current sid. not much help, I know. A
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