I recently installed fedora core 3 to my new computer and found out that I can't get the different accentuation characters like ô â etc. to output properly via xterm & Powwow while playing mume. I never before had any problems with different redhat versions. Anyway I think that problem is with the "new" UTF-8 encoding. Or rather problem is with mume using old encoding system. That's at least my guessing :P

If anyone has similar problems I managed eventually to solve the problem by setting locale settings for the xterm session temporarily to iso8859-1 like this:

LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso88591 xterm -fn 8x13 -e /home/user/mume/powwow-1.2.5/powwow

Don't expect anything remotely approaching modern technology on MUME. They're still in the process of replacing the vacuum tubes with transistors on the MUME computer.

Fedora sucks, Debian & Slackware are the best.
Im using debian's "sarge" atm whats still on testing but i like Debian the best!, and im using tintin to play mume on ETerm
and Eterm really pwnz xterm due transparency and other stuff.
using xfree86, xfce4.2 as DE/wm is the best choice ever aswell:)

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Thanks for your feedback Rancr. At least more interesting than Arzantor's ranting.

Chark: Eterm autom. has the "addon" for special symbols:P thats why its kewl.
and i figured kinda much time what linux to use and what DE/wm, since i have p2 333mhz, 64ram, gnome and kde are slow, and fluxbox,icewm other fast stuff are just too plain to play with, right now xfce rlly owns. it uses 30ram with open applications on my computer and really has nice quick performance, not to mention good looking and ability to customize and add plugins:)

Chark, I, unfortunately, have no answer to contribute, but a suggestion to mume-mail Dain. I know he mucked around (though perhaps on separate occasions) with Fedora, powwow, and locales. There is a version of powwow that seems to be more language-able, but that's not the one publicly available.