Re: [LUG] More on my upgrade ..

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Simon Waters wrote:

> On 07/06/11 21:09, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
> >
> > > Since 0xA3 is a pound sign in ISO-8859-1 and 0xC2 is capital letter A
> > > with circumflex, is you ever see "ÃÂ" it almost invariably means that
> > > you have a character set encoding issue, and have treated UTF-8 as
> > > ISO-8859-1 (don't do that) or similar 8 bit character set.
> >
> > Aargh. It's Alpine - it can't handle en_GB.UTF-8 - says it's unsupported.
>
> When does it say that?

When it starts and when I enter en_GB.UTF-8 in the charset setting in the 
config screen..

> I just sent you an email with a  sign in from Alpine with appropriate
> locale, and the docs suggest that PC-Alpine (Windows version?) always
> assumes UTF-8 locale (which seems sensible these days).
>
> Is it unsupported, or is the locale just not generated on your computer
> or some such.

Outout of 'locale':

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

gordon @ unicorn: echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

I tried both the lenny alpine package, and the 2.0 package avalable on the 
alpine website...

It's not the biggest issue I'm facing right now though!

Gordon

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