[Wylug-discuss] Re: mutt query

[Barrie Stott]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:07:05AM +0000, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-Feb-13 at 20:41:12, Barrie Stott <G.B.Stott at bolton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I have a problem with characters which have the top bit set when
> > viewing them in mutt with the default pager. For example, the pound
> > sterling symbol appears as \243.
> > ...
> You might check to see whether and how LC_CTYPE is set; I have
> en_GB defined in /etc/locale.gen, and I set LC_CTYPE to en_GB.
> This only works, of course, if the locale for en_GB has been
> generated.  You might have to do 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', as
> a bug prevented this from working correctly at install time.

Many thanks Owen. All I had to do was the `dpkg-reconfigure locales'
followed by a reboot. Within the dpkg-reconfigure, I changed LC_CTYPE
from C to en_GB. Now characters display correctly.

Barrie.