On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely > > borked. messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up > > in ascii codes like this: > > > > Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer > > Kenntnisse, zur Beratung. Nur wenn wir sicher sind, dass Sie das > > mitbringen, was wir voraussetzen, k\366nnen wir Ihnen den Zugang zum > > Studium \366ffnen. > > > > when replying to an email, the same text when quoted looks fine (the > > accented characters render as what they're supposed to be). weird. > > > > i tried `dpkg-reconfigure locales`, and generated en_US.ISO-8859-1 and > > en_US.UTF-8 ... still the same problem. i really don't have any > > further ideas ... can someone point me in the right direction? > > Hi, > have a look at /etc/inputrc: > > # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out > # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key, > # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters. > > # set convert-meta off > > and comment this one out.
Hi, here is what I did: run dpkg-reconfigure localeconf set all questions about languages to de_DE.ISO-8859-15 If that works do the same procedure but setting it to en_US.ISO-8859-1 and Hope you succeed. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
