Re: How to get tin pager to display 'extended' characters

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:22:44PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> I have mm_charset in my tinrc set to ISO-8859-1 and it allows me to
> post £ signs and such OK.  If I save an article I have posted with
> such characters in it and then view it ('cat' to screen or editor)
> then the characters have been posted correctly.
> 
> However if I view the article in tin the extended characters are
> displayed as question marks.  How do I get tin to *display* these
> characters?

also have to configure your locales accordingly (detailed info is
available in doc/umlauts and/or <http://www.tin.org/umlauts.html> and the
related man-pages, e.g. locale(5), environ(5); a short description of the
related env-vars is given in the tin(1) manual-page).

if the desired locales are installed on your system (for debian this can be
done via: "apt-get update ; apt-get install locales ; dpkg-reconfigure
locales") this can be done via:

(sh-style)
	export LC_CTYPE=en_US

(csh-style)
	setenv LC_CTYPE en_US

in your profile/shell-rc/...

HTH,
urs
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