Easy umlauts?

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:47:50 PDT 2004


An unnamed Administration source, Kurt Wall, wrote:
% 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 ? for me.
% So, how do I persuade mutt to display umlauted characters?
% 
% Is this a locale issue?

It must be. I set LANG=en_GB and I started seeing ?, ?, ?, ?,  and ?
in mutt. The bad news is that now I can't compose them using "a, "e, 
"i, "o, and "u. :-(

Kurt
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