Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to learn how to write text in French so that I can send > properly accented emails to a friend of mine. Unfortunately we're having a > problem with the accents that I'm sending through. He's using KMail, and > I'm using Mutt (not that it should matter)... > > I have the following set in .muttrc: > set allow_8bit > set charset="iso-8859-15" > set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15" > > [...] > > As best I can figure out there may be a problem with the fact that I'm > sending: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > whereas my friend's email gets sent through as: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Is that the problem, or does the problem lie somewhere else?
This *could* be the problem. Sending mails with 8 bit characters is generally not a good idea; some MTAs munge them. Try to disable "allow_8bit" in mutt. Martin -- ,--. Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) http://www.zero-based.org/ ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' `-'(. .)`-' `-. Debian, a variant of the GNU operating system. \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
