For some reason when someone sends me messages via the MSN Messenger protocol, they appear funny.

Each of the following pairs are what appears instead of a SINGLE accented character.


ç = (i forget, but it was some character)

é = é
â = â
û = û
ô = ô
î = î
ê = ê
Ã_ = à
è = è
ù = ù
ì = ì
ò = ò

I noticed that in one of the menus it says:

Codepages conversion:
Remote charset: cp1250
Local charset: iso-8859-1

I think the trouble is in these lines, but I don`t know what it should be.

Someone please help me with this.


Secondly, instead of having a nice box around my screen all I see is â.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

THanks,

David

Appears that the trouble with the border and such were caused by the term variable.

I did

export TERM=xterm

screen

export TERM=screen

centericq


and that is cleared up, now it is just a matter of getting those darned accents to work.


Thanks,

David

I found a way to get it to work.


I went into /etc/sysconfig/language and set
RC_LANG="ft_FR.UTF-8"


Remote charset: utf-8
Local charset: iso-8859-1

That seens to make it work.

I am running SuSe 9.2, hope this helps someone else.


David