On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:27:32PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a > member of an > Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. > However, > when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where an accented character is in the > messages. > I though 8859-1 could handle extended characters... I use accents too and in ~/.bashrc I added :
export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 (with xfree4 ...) or export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859.1 (with xfree3...) replace fr_FR by your own locale. run : locale -a (and man locale) hth -- Gerard
