Showing Umlauts in Mutt (Was: Re: Easy umlauts?)

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Kurt Wall, wrote:
% 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. :-(

Okay. Think twice, post once. I forgot to make us_intl the XkbLayout
option (I was using "setxkbmap us_intl -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY"
from the command line to get this worked out). So, the results so
far:

1. With LANG=en_GB, I can see umlauted characters in Mutt. I presume
   this also means I can see other 8-bit characters in Mutt.
2. With this in XF86Config:

       Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
       Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
       Option "XkbOptions" ""
       #Option "XkbVariant" ""

   I can compose (at least) various characters: 
   
       ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, and so forth.

Kurt
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