Re: proper UTF-8 support under OSX

["FranÃois Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>]

> On 2009-10-23 13:35:22 +0200, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > ...
> > > If Mutt is also affected, this is probably not a problem due to
> > > zsh.
> > >
> > > Also if you use ssh, you need the same charmap on both sides.
> >
> > Yes, and the same 'locale' environment variables (which I assume
> > the
> > compiled tool will show).
>
> Not necessarily. Unfortunately the locale names are platform
> dependent
> (well, in particular under Linux), and the same locale name can have
> a
> different charmap on different platforms.

That's what the LC_CTYPE env var is supposed to indicate, AFAIK.
For ex,
LC_LANG=fr_FR
but
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8


FranÃois.