I want to set up charsets on my Etch system to have some reasonable
compromise between 'modern' and 'works for me'. I have, from time to
time, attempted to copy advice offered on email lists with mixed
results. I want to try again because recovering from my last failure
left my computer in a state where man pages and emails, read in mutt,
contain strings like '—' . Based on past experience, I pretty
sure that I can make these disappear, but in the process some other,
undesireable artifacts with arise.

Where is there an up-to-date tutorial for controlling and fixing
charset stuff?

Details of my situation:
mutt for email
emacs and vim for editing
iceweasel
gnome-terminal
gnome desktop, but really only to run gnome-terminal

Once upon a time my system was pure Etch. Now it is Etch with garbage
left over from failed attempts to solve this issue. I think I need
particularly with clearing out this garbage. Suggestions?

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Le dimanche 11 mars 2007 19:59, Paul E Condon a écrit:
> I want to set up charsets on my Etch system to have some reasonable
> compromise between 'modern' and 'works for me'. I have, from time to
> time, attempted to copy advice offered on email lists with mixed
> results. I want to try again because recovering from my last failure
> left my computer in a state where man pages and emails, read in mutt,
> contain strings like '—' . Based on past experience, I pretty
> sure that I can make these disappear, but in the process some other,
> undesireable artifacts with arise.
>
> Where is there an up-to-date tutorial for controlling and fixing
> charset stuff?
>
> Details of my situation:
> mutt for email
> emacs and vim for editing
> iceweasel
> gnome-terminal
> gnome desktop, but really only to run gnome-terminal
>
> Once upon a time my system was pure Etch. Now it is Etch with garbage
> left over from failed attempts to solve this issue. I think I need
> particularly with clearing out this garbage. Suggestions?

you may start here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...en.html#s-l10n

and also:

man charsets
man locale-gen
man consolechars
man loadkeys
see the file /etc/console-tools/config

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Cédric Lucantis