On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:20:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 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.
I just tried it and its all ok. Fully upto date etch with mutt from backports, although that probably doesn't make any difference. Should've tested one more time before posting. :-( -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]