[Alpine-info] Foreign Characters?

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:


> Assume that I want foreign characters to display correctly, in

> alpine/pine.  Right now I get either (literally) ??????? or some mixture

> of odd high-ascii characters and inverse-diamond-?????'s

>

> Also, assume that I use screen, and that I'm connecting from another

> system over ssh

>

> Soup-to-nuts, what is it I need to do on my:

>

> a) local system (ubuntu with gnome-terminal)


I use xterm, but basically you need to put gnome-terminal in UTF8 mode.


> b) remote system (freebsd 6.x)


In your login script, set LANG=en_US.UTF-8


> c) screen/termcap


I don't think anything needs to change here.


> d) alpine/pine


Alpine will display UTF-8 by default once the LANG environment variable is 
set.  Pine won't work with UTF-8, in my experience.

 	Andy