Re: slrn and UTF-8
Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
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Hello Peter, Peter J Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:40, Dan H. wrote: > >> So what's the deal? Is slrn actually actively supported any more, or will I >> have to look at an alternative newsreader? The homepage seems to be of >> October 2004 vintage; this doesn't look too active any more.. > > 2. If you use Slrn in an X-terminal-emulator, try this rather clumsy > workaround, which sets the locale for Slrn to one of the legacy character > sets. Leave UTF-8 as the default. > > # dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales > > Choose the locales you want to support. > > # apt-get install luit You don't need luit when you have a XTerm. Start the XTerm with LANG=en_GB.iso88591 and you have a non‐UTF‐8 environment. LANG=en_GB.iso88591 xterm -e slrn Bye, Jörg. -- Da würde ich auch lieber den Panzerführerschein machen als den MCSE. Bringt mehr, dürfte das gleiche kosten und macht sicher mehr Spaß. Jens Dittmar in de.comp.security ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/