Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sarge and etch offer two packages containing xterm - one of which
> calls itself something like XTERM(unicode), except not quite that.
Perhaps you're thinking of rxvt-unicode (which is not xterm).
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H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was helping a friend setup his system with Indic fonts with unicode
> support some time ago (a few months). We couldn't get it working in
> xterm but it was a breeze to get gnome-terminal and konsole working with
Reading your comment closely, it appears that
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>>
I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
>>
>>> Do you use mutt in xterm? If
Arlie Stephens wrote:
Well, what I got was a different kind of gobbletygook. I presume it
won't cut and paste ;-) but looking at a message that should be
quoting Icelandic, I'm seeing improbably characters like a capital A
with a horizontal bar across it, embedded in the middle of
words. (This i
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Arlie Stephens wrote:
> >
> >>>I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
> >>>notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
> >
> >>Do you use mutt in xterm? If so,
Thomas Dickey wrote:
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Arlie Stephens wrote:
I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this
right. Try
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 13:10:13 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
[...]
> And let me guess - there's no way to automatically determine what
> encoding a given message may contain, and the mutt mail client
> probably cannot switch encodings on the fly.
The charset should be given in the header of th
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> > 3. Make sure the relevant language fonts are installed.
>
> It looks like this is the problem. Not the fonts but the locales - the
> only locales I have are 'C' and 'POSIX', at least on the system I use
> most frequently.
>
> Interestingly, another sar
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this
> immediately, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work.
Well, I'm now at home, trying this, and it didn't quite work - the
bottom line being that not all the mes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arlie Stephens) writes:
> Etch _claimed_ to default to UTF-8 - not my preference, but any
> consistent and working setup is better than nothing - and I need to
> check whether _that_ encoding actually works. (How can I find some
> text that's definitely encoded in that format?)
Hi,
Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this
imemdiatley, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work.
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote:
> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>
> >
> >I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
> >notably my email client
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally, open gnome-terminal or konsole and fire up mutt. You should see
> various language characters in all their glory. BTW, xterm does not
> support UTF-8 properly yet.
that, or you're not reading the manpage.
(hint: provide a useful bug report)
--
Thomas
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>>
>> I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
>> notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
> Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this
> right. Try this:
yawn
Arlie Stephens wrote:
I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this
right. Try this:
1. Use gnome-terminal or konsole (at least it ou
Hi All,
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes
> accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as
> question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN):
> http://www.time.com/time/nation/art
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