Getting Unicode working under Linux

• Putty supports UTF-8 output, among other things. (tips on getting it working... 1) install a decent font, 2) change the Translation settings to UTF-8, and 3) in Window Appearance, Font, change the font to the one you installed, 3b) make sure it's set to "Cleartype" on that screen)
• GNU screen... start it with the "-U" option to tell it to use UTF-8 for the encoding (should be used for both screen creation, and screen re-attachment)
• Vim: add set encoding=utf-8 to your .vimrc
• Mutt: See this for compiling info, and this for sample .muttrc settings.
  • iconv should be used to convert between formats
• less: setenv LESSCHARSET=utf-8
• w3m: make sure w3m -version indicates that m17n is included. If it is, then add the line display_charset utf8 to ~/.w3m/config (or start w3m with -O utf8)
• TODO: use iconv -f ?? -t UTF-8 to convert text/plain mail parts to unicode, so I can read them directly from Mutt
• random webpages: one