On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > 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 "\0303\0244" > > should give you an "ä" (lowercase a-umlaut) on a utf-8 terminal. If you
Yep, ok. > The a-umlaut is not a particularly fancy character, so you should also > try this: > > echo -e "\0342\0224\0224\0342\0224\0200\0076" > > should give you "└─>" (mutt's arrow showing a reply in a thread). Yep, ok. I deleted the LC_CTYPE="en_NZ" line in my .bashrc and everything is now showing fine. -- Chris. ======