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

[Tom Gilbert]

* Kim Hawtin (kim at aldigital.co.uk) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:48:44PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> > * Jim (jim at lateral.net) wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> i tried this and dpkg-reconfigure says;
> 
> debconf: package "locales" is not installed or does not use debconf
> 
> might this get sorted on reboot?

No :) Not reboot. Bear in mind that I'm on sid, and it's called locales
in sid. Let's see now...

i18ndata maybe? Hrm something like that. Actually I think in woody they
all came pregenerated, so changing /etc/environment and logging out
(completely, back to console login or [xgk]dm) should do it. Or just
test it with:
export LANG=en_GB; mutt

> > 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.
> 
> its rather anoying having the pound symbol come up as \223 or
> whatever every time. the same with quote characters and accented
> letters..

Yeah - that's why I got it all working here ;) I even modified my
favourite X font (nexus) to support pound signs and i18n, it's called
knickers and is on my downloads page if anyone's interested..

Tom.
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