From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 31 23:25:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFF8106566B for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:25:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1A28FC08 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7VNOt4p093986; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20090831232525.GC88988@thought.org> References: <20090831172140.GA85543@thought.org> <20090831180949.GA21988@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090831195159.GD85542@thought.org> <20090831214820.GB25395@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090831214820.GB25395@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mutt screen output... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:25:31 -0000 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:48:20PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed > > > > thru mutt include things like "\240" and other octal chars. > > > > > > > > anybody know why and how to fix this? > > > > > > What terminal emulator are you using, and what are your locale settings? With > > > urxvt and LANG and LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8 It works fine. Mind you, I think > > > that the console doesn't support UTF-8 (yet). > > > > > > > Konsole ... up from xterm. > > > > i thought it was my LC settings for a moment, but I just checked: > > > > % setenv |gr LC > > 11:LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > 12:LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > 17:LC_LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > Any other settings to grep for? > > Check if Konsole/KDE have any settings regarding fonts and character sets. I'm > not a KDE user so I can't help you much with that. According to > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-apps/konsole/commandreference.html, the > View->Set Character Encoding might be of use, or one of the submenus > in the Settings menu? not found. BUT changing the Settings -> Encoding [long list] to UTF8 may be working. are they are kde/konsole wizards out there who can point me to just ONE place in ~/.kde3/*/* and to the konsole* file where things live? i'll change everything byhand if i have to, but would think that the default is set somewhere centrally. thanks very much, Roland. gary ps: i'll 2- and 3-ck to be sure!! > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php 10% slice of my latest novel: http://www.thought.org/10pc