On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:51:03PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > Did you try saving the messages and verifying that the saved messages > > still display properly? > > Lots of people have been using Mutt with UTF-8 for years, and yes, > this is known to work if your environment is set up correctly. > > > Where is LANG set? > > In the environment. See the man pages for locale(1) and environ(7) on > your system, as well as the bash man page if you don't know how to set > environment variables. You need to make sure it is set correctly so > that iconv will convert (or not convert) the messages properly. > > You'll also need to use a unicode font with your xterm, AND make sure > it has all the glyphs that you want to see... It sounds like you may > already have that set up, but if you don't try adding either of > these to your ~/.Xdefaults file: > > XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* > XTerm*font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 > > Both of these fonts have a very large number of character glyphs from > most of the world's major languages, though in each font, at least a > (different) subset of the Asian characters is missing. > > Then run this command: > > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults > > And after that, any new xterms you open should display characters > properly. You may need to install the fonts first... > > Alternately, try running Mutt in a gnome-terminal window, which is > built with libraries to select and display an appropriate font based > on the natural language character set from which the characters > originate. [Of course, you still need to have appropriate fonts > installed for the language you want to see...] > > If you still need more help, google is rife with pages which describe > how to configure your locale properly to display unicode correctly. > > -- > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > -=-=-=-=- > This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in > undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks very much for the info I thought I had everything set up for Unicode, but the loss of the Russian and Asian glyphs in the saved emails prove otherwise
