SSH session + Japanese mail in mutt

[Jing Su]

First question, do you know if putty is indeed able to show multi-byte
characters?  It would be pointless to try and wrangle multi-byte
characters out of the linux box if putty can't show them.

Second question, when you log into your linux machine, type in:
echo $LANG
echo $LC_CTYPE

what does it say?
When I want to do Chinese on my computer, I first set the locale to
zh_TW.big5.  I'm not sure what the locale identifier for Japanese is...
anyone else know?  I think the Japanese ones start with 'ja'.  Though I'm
not sure how many different enconding types there are.

Try:
cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n

what does it say?

If you don't want to permanently change your locale, you can set it in the
console you're working out of before running the programs you want to run.
for example:
export LANG="ja"

and then running 'mutt'.  Assuming mutt knows how to read the locale
identifier and show the right fonts and encodings.

Hope this helps a bit....
-Jing


> On February 19, 2004 12:48 am, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> > I would be extremely grateful if anyone can help me. I want to read and
> > write Japanese mail in an ssh session, preferably using mutt. I will be
> > sshing in from a windows box and thus will be using windows IME for
> > Japanese input.
> >
> > A second best solution would be to only be able to read Japanese mail.
> > Currently when I get Japanese mail it is garbled. I stays garbled when I
> > forward it to yahoo webmail where I can read Japanese mail.
> >
> > I am running Gentoo linux as a headless server. The computer serves files
> > and hosts a simple web site and a personal mail system. I fetchmail, and
> > deposit into my mailboxes using procmail. I use both bogofilter and
> > spamassassin to filter junk. I set up webmail using Squirrelmail. I use
> > Courier imap with ssl.
> >
> > I haven't set up locales because I don't completely understand how to. I
> > am also not sure if they will work over ssh.
> >
> > I use putty for ssh.
> >
> > I am flexible about changing anything if it will solve my problem.
> >
> > Thank you all again.
>
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