en_US.UTF-8 and Umlaute

LonelyStar · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 390

Hi,

I am localized in Germany and therefor use Umlaute (ä,ü,ö) form time to time. Still, I do not want my computer to "talk" german.
So, I thought, I set LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 since UTF-8 should support umlaute.

But with this, I get strange symbols in emacs and mutt wenn trying to inser an Umlaut.
The correct symbol is displayed, if I set LC_ALL to de_DE. But mutt talks german to me then ...

What can I do?
Thanks!
Nathan

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

this should help.

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

mutt takes care of LC_CTYPE for this.
Same situation here, speak for heaven's sake NOT german, but do the Umlaut-stuff:

Cheesebaron · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 24 Location: DTU, Denmark

Can't you just use en_DE?

I use en_DK for my system. I have all special danish chars and the system speaks English to me.
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