Properly handle character set definition file installation.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fd02c4dd..a3846912 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ to ``configure'' to help it out, or change the default behavior:
 --with-sharedir=DIR
 	specify where to put architecture independent data files
 
+
 --with-curses=DIR
 	use the curses lib in DIR/lib.  If you have ncurses, ``configure''
 	will automatically look in /usr/include/ncurses for the include
@@ -153,6 +154,26 @@ run the ``configure'' script again.
 
 Please note that "VPATH" builds currently do _not_ work.
 
+Character set support
+=====================
+
+Mutt has extensive support for doing character set conversions.  To
+use this, you'll need the proper character set definition files.
+
+If these files are already installed on your system (glibc 2.0
+includes them), you can tell the configure script this by using the
+--with-charmaps option.  As an argument, it takes the directory in
+which the character set definition files have been installed.  By
+default, configure looks into /usr/share/i18n/charmaps.
+
+If these files are not present on your system, you can download a
+charmaps tar-ball from the same place from which you got mutt (e.g.,
+ftp.guug.de/pub/mutt/). Unpack it under the mutt toplevel source
+directory, and re-configure mutt.  configure will detect this; the
+character set definition files should be automatically installed in
+the proper place.
+
+
 Platform Notes
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