Dave Ewart writes:
> On Tuesday, 26.09.2000 at 11:01 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > > e.g. the UK pound sign, £ (don't know how that'll appear for most of
> > > you) appears as \243 (that's backslash, 2, 4, 3).
> >
> > Set your locale properly. If that doesn't help, compile with
> > --enable-locales-fix.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Lars. How do I set my locale?
Setting LC_CTYPE should be enough.
Example: in general, I prefer a C locale, but occasionally I do need
certain non-ascii characters. So here's what I am using:
$ grep LC_ ~/.muttrc
set editor="LC_CTYPE=en_IE.ISO8859-15 vi"
set pager="LC_CTYPE=en_IE.ISO8859-15 less -ceiM +Gg"
$
Works nicely: £ Å Ë Ø ç í etc.
A different solution, which can be implemented with a wrapper script
or aliases:
$ LC_CTYPE=en_IE.ISO8859-15 mutt # Bourne/Korn
$ env LC_CTYPE=en_IE.ISO8859-15 mutt # Csh and friends
Or simply set the correct locale permanently in your environment
(Solaris/CDE allows you to choose the locale on login if all the
necessary files are installed).
