[Gllug] Why \303\24335 and \302\24350?

[Tom Gilbert]

* Jim (jim at lateral.net) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just noticed that my reply regarding winmodems came out strange instead
> of 35-50 UKP I got a set of very weird numbers, anybody got any idea
> why?
> 
> for further info I am using OS X as a client but I SSH to a Debian Woody
> box running mutt and fetchmail to collect mail off remote servers.

You need to make sure your locales setup is good. LANG should be set to
en_GB. For debian, this is set in /etc/environment (not sure if that
goes back to woody but semi confident) - but first make sure you have
that locale installed - dpkg-reconfigure locales and select it.

Mutt uses your locale setup to work out whether to attempt to display
stuff like £ signs. You'll also need to ensure your font has a £
character, of course.. Some US X fonts don't include it.

Tom.
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