[sylpheed:30291] Re: Can't see non-ASCII charcters

[Aleksandr Konstantinov]

 Encoding in mail headers is correct - UTF-8.
 It may be that other programs I use are not GTK
based.
Is there any tool to check if GTK can display 
characters correctly?

Regards,

A.K.


--- Ian Lewis <ianmlewis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, GTK should display the characters correctly if
> you have the fonts
> installed regardless of your locale etc. Check the
> e-mail header to see if
> the encoding is specified correctly. Sometimes
> friends of mine have sent me
> mails from yahoo which are encoded in SJIS but the
> encoding specified in the
> header was EUCJP or vise versa. I can't remember.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 2006/10/30, Aleksandr Konstantinov
> <akonstantinov at yahoo.com>:
> >
> > Unfortunately that does not help. I tried to set
> > LANG to my language, to language of a letter I
> want to
> > read and to en_US. Still all non-ASCII characters
> > are missing on screen. They are also missing if I
> do
> > copy&paste to other editor. But they are present
> if
> > I save letter to file.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > A.K.
> >
> >
> > --- Levente <levente.kovacs at interware.hu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:55:11 -0800 (PST)
> > > Aleksandr Konstantinov <akonstantinov at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >  Thanks for a hint. But I think it solves
> > > different
> > > > problem. I do not want menus to be in my
> language.
> > > > I'm quite comfortable with default locale C -
> > > english.
> > > >  That I want is to be able to read
> multi-language
> > > > mails written in a language different from one
> > > > OS is configured for and encoded in UTF8.
> > > >  I'm sure there is no problem in a system
> because
> > > > most fonts I have in my X11 installation are
> > > > multi-language fonts and other programs which
> > > > support UTF8 have no problems with displaying
> > > > characters which are not in default locale.
> > >
> > > This is what I do. LC_ALL is set to English, so
> menu
> > > language will be Egnlish. However, sylpheed
> needs
> > > the LANG variable to be set to your language.
> For me
> > > it is set to Hungarian.
> > >
> > > Levente
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> 
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