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>>>>> "Magnus" == Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu> writes:

Magnus> victor@algebraic.org (Victor S. Miller) writes:
>> How can I tell gnus (or emacs in general) not to try to display
>> extended characters when my terminal type is a vt100?

Magnus> (unless window-system (set-terminal-coding-system 'latin-1))

Magnus> But this shouldn't be needed.  Given correct locale settings
Magnus> (LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE environment variables) Emacs should
Magnus> figure this out by itself.

Magnus> Regards, Magnus

Magnus, Thanks very much.  When I log on as a vt100 the LC_ALL and
LC_CTYPE aren't set at all, and LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8.

What can I do to get these set properly?

Victor