> No I don't, I use Linux (Xubuntu). I only moved from ISO-8859 to UTF-8 > a little while ago though, mainly because until a year or two go I did a > lot of work on legacy Sun systems which, as regards characters sets etc. > were back in the dark ages and for cross compatibility with them > ISO-8859 made things easier. > My basic needs are really only western European character sets (I do > actually read and write news and E-Mail in French as well as English > and read, rarely, Polish) so ISO-8859 does most of what I want. I just > found that so much software is now defaulting to UTF-8 that it was > easier to go with that now that I don't have to deal with ancient Sun > systems.
Ok thanks Chris, I see your point. I've just checked again and for FreeBSD using the UTF-8 locale does not work for me, especially when using mutt and reading man pages. Using the ISO character sets and setting $LANG and $MM_CHARSET as I mentioned earlier works. Also, on my OpenBSD system setting $LC_CTYPE to use one of the ISO character sets works well. Setting $LC_CTYPE to UTF-8 however has very poor results. The thread tree in mutt's index is all screwed up and the messages overlap as the indicator moves over them. $LC_CTYPE is the only variable option available on the default installation for localisation. Jamie
