Mutt pager: Foreign letters

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.3K blaze of typing glory, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Does anyone know how to make the mutt built in pager
> display foreign letters properly?

Make sure it's built with NLS support:

$ mutt -v
[...]
Compile options:
DOMAIN="kurtwerks.com"
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -DL_STANDALONE  
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
-ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER

Note "-ENABLE_NLS" and the following definitions. In my case, I don't
have NLS enabled. Most of the time, however, simply using LANG=en_US
in my environment (or, LANG=de_DE, or whatever) gets me 90% of what
I want.

Kurt
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