On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:48:20PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed
> > > > thru mutt include things like "\240" and other octal chars.
> > > >
> > > > anybody know why and how to fix this?
> > >
> > > What terminal emulator are you using, and what are your locale settings?
> > > With
> > > urxvt and LANG and LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8 It works fine. Mind you, I
> > > think
> > > that the console doesn't support UTF-8 (yet).
> > >
> >
> > Konsole ... up from xterm.
> >
> > i thought it was my LC settings for a moment, but I just checked:
> >
> > % setenv |gr LC
> > 11:LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> > 12:LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> > 17:LC_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > Any other settings to grep for?
>
> Check if Konsole/KDE have any settings regarding fonts and character sets. I'm
> not a KDE user so I can't help you much with that. According to
> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-apps/konsole/commandreference.html, the
> View->Set Character Encoding might be of use, or one of the submenus
> in the Settings menu?
not found. BUT changing the Settings -> Encoding [long list] to UTF8
may be working.
are they are kde/konsole wizards out there who can point me to just ONE
place in ~/.kde3/*/* and to the konsole* file where things live?
i'll change everything byhand if i have to, but would think that the
default is set somewhere centrally.
thanks very much, Roland.
gary
ps: i'll 2- and 3-ck to be sure!!
>
> Roland
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