On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 14:37:44 +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > For mutt, I resorted to setting > set locale=da_DK > in ~/.mutt/muttrc. (I'm Danish and some of my correspondence is in Danish) > Setting LANG on its own didn't do the trick for me.
LANG sets the preferred language for messages; it does not change the system's opinion of what characters are printable. Use LC_CTYPE for that. Ray -- "When you are finished spreading joy on Christmas Eve, come and kick back with me and Erwin for a while. [...] We'll provide the cocoa and cookies, and we'll even teach you how to play Quake." From the Dust Puppy's letter to Santa Claus.