[Alpine-info] problems with accented characters

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:


>    2/ Wrong display of accented characters

>       The problem actually came from xterm, even after installing the

>       debian package xfonts-efonts-unicode

>       I discovered that using uxterm instead of xterm miraculously

>       solves it.

>

>    There is still one thing which looks like an alpine bug(or at least

>    of the ubuntu implementation): The LANG variable is not used.

>

>         With LANG=UTF-8 and display_character-set unset, the display

>         of UTF-8 mails should be OK, but I get

>

>        The following text is in the "UTF-8" character set. ]

>         [ Your display is set for the "ANSI_X3.4-1968" character set.  ]

>         [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

>

>  Thanks again for your help.


I believe you need to set "LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8".

 	Andy