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Re: help w mutt & xterm & gkrellm & utf8.

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James Michael Fultz

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Sep 26, 2009, 1:10:21 AM9/26/09
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* s. keeling <kee...@nucleus.com>:
> Hi. please help me understand this. :-) I'm confused.
>
> This is weird. I can send an email with utf8 encoding, but opening up
> the copy doesn't display the chars correctly. Replying to that mail
> opens it up in emacs which does display it correctly. Why can't mutt
> in an xterm display it correctly when emacs can, using the same font
> in each? I've xrdb -merge'd, and restarted X, and logged out and in
> again. What am I missing here? Thanks.
>
[... LANG=en_CA.utf8 ...]
>
> This's Debian stable/Lenny on an AMD-64 HP dv5 laptop. Base install
> plus stuff I dragged in manually only. No KDE or Gnome; fluxbox via
> startx environment.

How are you invoking xterm? Try invoking it as uxterm if not
already since that is supposed run xterm with proper settings for
an UTF-8 environment.

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James Michael Fultz <xy...@sent.as.invalid>
Remove this part when replying ^^^^^^^^

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