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Re: mutt and locale
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- Subject: Re: mutt and locale
- From: "Gary R Van Sickle" <tiberius at braemarinc dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:56:49 -0500
> Dear all,
>
> I want to suggest to whoever is currently maintaining the mutt package
> ;-)
That's me. Well, it will be as soon as I get my new build to Corrina ;-).
> to compile it with --enable-locales-fix in the future. Since locale
> support is broken in cygwin anyway (at least the LC_CTYPE part) it does
> not make sense for mutt to rely on it. If it is compiled with the above
> option it should at least work for people using iso-8859-1.
>
> And if full locale support really exists in cygwin then please educate
> me how to set up my environment so that the isprint() function
> recognizes characters > 127. I have exhausted all net.resources on this
> topic and tried all suggested combinations but to no avail. I managed to
> compile my own mutt and it now displays my German umlaut characters but
> I trust you people more than myself. 8-]
>
Unfortunately I know next to nothing about Cygwin's locale support or lack
thereof. The --enable-locales-fix is certainly easy enough to do though.
Corrina/Chris/etc, what do you guys think? Should I build with it before I
submit it to you (hopefully this evening)? Or is there actually proper
locale support and this is actually some other problem?
> TIA and best regards
> Jerry
Gary R. Van Sickle
Braemar Inc.
11481 Rupp Dr.
Burnsville, MN 55337
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