Re: problems with diacritic characters in fedora8

[Jens Petersen <petersen redhat com>]

Hi Natxo Asenjo,
> > > it is awkward because I am used to using console programs like mutt
> > > for my email, so this is something that I come across really often.
> > > LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> > > LC_TIME="en_US"
> > > LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> > > LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> > > LC_PAPER="en_US"
> > > LC_NAME="en_US"
> > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> > Are you intentionally not using UTF-8?
>
> not that I know of.

Sounds like you are somehow overriding the locale in your user 
configuration.  Perhaps you have a ~/.i18n file or set locale in your 
shell or desktop startup files?

> I use the tool in system->administration->
> language and choose English (USA);

That just sets the system locale, which seems to be ok from what you say.

Jens