[Alpine-info] Foreign Characters?

[Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik]

:2009-01-12T15:27:Dan Mahoney, System Admin:



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

>

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

>


Need to be running in an UTF-8 locale - command locale to check - see
distro specific documentation to see how to switch.
Locale should look like: xx_YY.UTF-8 or similar


> b) remote system (freebsd 6.x)

>


No clue how this is handled on FreeBSD but same applies. Possibly needed
libiconv/iconv package.


> b2) curses

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Possibly need to build curses with widechar support/UTF8/iconv support.


> c) screen/termcap

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Run screen with utf8 support. See screen documentation for this.


> d) alpine/pine

>


Setting various display encodings and so on to UTF-8 helps. Other than
that don't think there is anything else necessary.

Hope this helps
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