On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:31:02AM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:17:07AM -0400, Michael Waters wrote: > > I'm using mutt and see accented letters fine... in /etc/environment , > > I have: > > > > LINGUAS=en_US > > LC_COLLATE=C > > LANG=en_US > > > > Maybe try that, log back in and restart X. > > Joy! That fixed it. Thanks. > > I don't have an /etc/environment and apt-file search doesn't turn up > that file; I'm running testing. What creates that file?
The postinst of the locales package, usually. Beware of /etc/environment, though. It's really a configuration file for pam_env. I think it should be used extremely sparingly; much better to change things in your personal shell startup files. Also, I'm not sure what if anything pays attention to LINGUAS. > I'll go googling for these environment variables to see *why* that > worked; any hints would be appreciated. 'man 7 locale' may help. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
