On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:10:33PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:24:57AM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:01:23AM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > Lately I've been trying out gnome 3 in debian. I usually work without > > > a desktop environment with just openbox and a bunch of xterms. > > > > > > Gnome, it seems, is a utf-8 environment, whereas I usually work in > > > iso-8859-1 (latin1). > > > > Well, did you check the used locale in your shell session? > > Here are the relevant settings: > > LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 > LC_MONETARY=en_IE.utf8 > TERM=xterm > GDM_LANG=en_IE.utf8 > LANG=en_IE.utf8 > GDMSESSION=gnome > LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IE.utf8 > XTERM_LOCALE=en_IE.utf8 > LC_NUMERIC=en_IE.utf8 > XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(303) > LC_PAPER=en_IE.utf8 > EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim > > Also I tried adding "set encoding=utf-8" to my .vimrc without change. > > Attached are two screenshots that illustrate the problem: > > - mutt pager view where the word "présenter" appears fine: > > http://flavius.apartia.fr/stuff/mutt_utf.png > > - vim view when replying where "présenter" is messed up: > > http://flavius.apartia.fr/stuff/vim_utf.png
I am not sure whether this is the right ML for your questions. This seems like a general locale problem, nothing that is specific to mutt. Posting just the environment variables of the non-working environment isn't so useful. Post both. Is the behavior the same when you use $(cat)? Kind regards, -Alex
