[Gloucs] Pounds and Locales

[Mick Brooks]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:38:34PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:00:03PM +0000, Mick Brooks wrote:
> > PS - anyone know how to make mutt do proper pound signs?
> 
> It's a locale issue. 
> You want to use en_GB, or some such.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:59:17PM +0000, David Corking wrote:
> On Thursday, Mick Brooks wrote:

> In case they offer you clues, here are some of my environment
> variables (I have mutt in an xterm running over ssh -X on a SuSE Linux
> 8.2 box from another SuSE 8.2)
> 
> LANG=en_US
> LC_COLLATE=POSIX
> TERM=xterm
> 
> and some .muttrc boilerplate that I use, quoted from and copyright (c)
> 1997-2001 Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de>

<snip>

Thanks to both of you on this - I just got around to asking our sysadmin
to setup en_GB (I know... he did it in 2 minutes, too), and all my £
signs now work.

Now, something else that isn't ASCII... ¹²³½¾êéè

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks at physics.ox.ac.uk