Re: slrn and UTF-8

Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
-- 
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Bringt mehr, dürfte das gleiche kosten und macht sicher mehr Spaß.
                                   Jens Dittmar in de.comp.security

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