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Nick W
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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: Troubleshooting UTF-8 |
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Hi all,
I have been working my way through the UTF-8 Guide but fear i must have done something wrong, and am not certain how to even tell if i have genuine UTF-8 encoding working on my KDE based laptop.
I just checked a Mutt email i'd sent (after using convm and iconv to change the config files to utf-8 and the headers say:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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When i run locale with no arguments though, i get this:
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LANG=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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though why i have en_US when in /etc/env.d/02locale i have the following, is quite beyond me....
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LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
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Can anyone help me troubleshoot this a bit? Here are a couple of things i *think* i should be doing but dont know how;
- checking to see if the mutt rc files are truly utf-8
- checking that localedef really did make the locale en_GB.UTF-8
- checking to see if glibc is working properly
As you can see, im a bit lost, so any guidance would be much appreciated, thanks! |
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Nuteater
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Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
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This might be a silly question, but did you use any non-ascii characters in
the email you sent with Mutt? By default Mutt sends mail either in ascii, iso-8859-1
or utf-8 based on what charset the message can be perfectly converted to - so
if you use only ascii characters, the mail is sent as ascii, but if you use e.g. some
European diacritics covered by iso-8859-1, the mail is sent as iso-8859-1. Only if you
include characters not covered by either of these, the mail is sent as utf-8.
See the help on 'send_charset' in the Mutt manual for more details.
About LC_ALL being set to the wrong value... are you sure the LC_* -variables are
not set again in your .bashrc or somesuch?
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Nick W
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Ahh...
Well that covers Mutt then, as it was indeed just a plain email. You were bang on the money with LC_ALL aswell  it was set in .bashrc though i cant remember ever doing that...
thanks a lot for the reply, i found i could set the encoding in Konsole to utf-8 which made the danish chars in some of my incoming email show up correctly aswell, so it appears at least that i do have it all sorted.
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Nuteater
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No problem .
And of course: if you want mail to be always sent as utf-8, you can just
set send_charset to "utf-8" instead of the default.
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