What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed?
A. Here are the most common variables: • HOME – location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes. • LANG, • LC_ALL, • LC_CTYPE, • LC_MESSAGES – locale settings, e.g. language and date format. 2.29 Q29 Special characters (e.g. umlauts) are not displayed correctly. A. In most cases, this is caused by fonts, that use an unsuitable encoding. Standard Sylpheed currently doesnt offer all font settings in the settings window, so if you take a look into your $HOME/.sylpheedrc, you will find some more font entries in the following form: bold_font=-unknown-Helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 The last two entries (“iso8859” and “1”) define the encodig. You can try to use wildcards (“*”) or force a specific encoding. bold_font=-unknown-Helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-*-* You should also make sure that your environment variables regarding locale settings have sensible values. 2.30 Q30 How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient)
