Variable LANG should do.

Jaromir

Martin Husemann wrote:
> The new year forced me to update my elm from pkgsrc. I was using an old 
> version (ME+30 I think) but that broke the date headers.
> 
> The current version now breaks all my mails using non-ascii characters
> with a message "Mail contains 8 bit chars and charset = US-ASCII, using
> UNKNOWN-8BIT instead". And of course these characters are unreadable by
> the recipient.
> 
> Digging around in the elm directories I came to the conclusion all should
> work fine (as elm has a mapping "elm.mimecharsets" which should map LC_CTYPE
> of "de" or de_DE to ISO-8859-1).
> 
> But: how do I set my locale? Probably some environement setting, but this
> seems to be documented nowhere. At least I didn't find it via apropos or
> the usual "man" suspects. Short of reading the libc source, what would
> I need to do to find out?
> 
> 
> Martin
> 


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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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