[CS-FSLUG] QOTW #5: Coffee and Tea

[Eduardo Sanchez]

What I think, Brian, is that Mutt uses these variables to check for i18n 
characters. In the absence of any value, I think the default, i.e., 
U.S. ASCII (7-bit) is assumed. ASCII does not have any accented 
characters, so there is the issue -- or so I think.

Blessings,


Eduardo

On Friday 04 June 2004 18:15, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:14:44PM -0400, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> > I sent my mail in ISO-8859-1, which is, at least in regards to 
accents, 
> > compatible with ISO-8859-15. Which mail client do you use Brian? If 
you 
> > use mutt or some other commandline client, I think you'll need to 
set 
> > some environment variables.
> > 
> > I have these on my /etc/profile file:
> > 
> > export LANG=en_US
> > export LC_ALL=en_US
> > LC_CTYPE="iso_8859-1"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> 
> I am indeed using mutt.  I checked LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and this is
> what I found
> 
>    LANG=C
>    LC_ALL=POSIX
>    LC_CTYPE=
> 
> I've never had problems with these settings before, but, then again I 
am
> no expert on character sets and internationalization.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Brian
> 
> -- 
> The just man walketh in his integrity:
> his children are blessed after him.  -- Proverbs 20:7
> 

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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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