Easy umlauts?

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, David A. Bandel, wrote:
% On Mon, 26 May 2003 20:54:38 -0400
% Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
% 
% > 
% > I made the changes to my XF86Config-4 file, and it worked. My keyboard
% > is now international. I have those four dead keys. However,  when I
% > type something like "u I don't get anything. If I type a dead key
% > followed by a space, I do get the dead key.
% 
% Odd.  using "u I get: ?
% Sure looks like an umlaut to me.

As you can see, mutt displays a ? instead of ü for me.
So, how do I persuade mutt to display umlauted characters?

Is this a locale issue?

K
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