On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:55:45AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: | On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: | > | Hi J?rgen, | > | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as | > | "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where | > | it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=". | > | > I don't know where to set the charset for mutt's internal pager or for | > emacs because I use less as the pager and vim as the editor. To | > correct the display of upper-ASCII characters in less (and get rid of | > the "binary file" warning) I added | > export LESSCHARSET=iso8859 | > to my .bashrc. It wasn't a problem with vim's defaults. | | How about when telnet/ssh'ing into a machine? I sometimes read the email on my | laptop from my desktop machine at work, and most extended characters show up as | /?/ as well.
Ok, to tell more of the story I really put "setenv LESSCHARSET iso8859" into my .cshrc on the Solaris box at school (they have csh as default, I always run bash after I log in) where I am now reading and writing this mail. You need to tell less what charset to use. If less is running on a remote box you need to set the environment variable on the remote box. When you log in to a box remotely it is just as if you are sitting in front of it. Do the same thing there as you would do for your local box. -D
