On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:45:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Ira, > I (thought) having sent this letter from work, a couple of days ago. > Apparently it did not get out. So I send it again. > > Hi Ira, > They say that "better late than never"... It turns out that the way > Hebrew text appears in mutt is determined by its default pager.
What's wrong with mutt's built-in pager? What character-set do you use? UTF-8 or ISO-8859-8? > Replacing it by set pager="/usr/bin/less -r", or vi or nano, followed by > set display_filter=bidiv bidiv is slightly more optimized for mail than fribidi, but only works for ISO-8859-8 output, right? > , allows one to see Hebrew text in the message. > The way to use mutt is slightly different, as long as you are in the > chosen pager, you cannot use mutt's key bindings. So, you have to leave, > it first by its command (q in less, :q in vi, Ctrl-X in nano...). Mutt > reponds by "command:", upon which you tell it what you desire it to do. > I don't know if it's worth the trouble, but in a system where the > behaviour can be determined at so many levels it's rewarding when you > find, at long last, the righ button to press. > Cheers, Avraham I write this from a debian-woody system. You should generally use there mutt-utf8 rather than mutt if you want proper multi-byte support. But the version of mutt on Woody leaks file-descriptors when you use display_filter . I eventually went on to use mutt from backports.org . I run it from a screen session. I invoke screen with screen -U and make sure that the environment is set to a UTF-8 locale and run from a UTF-8 terminal. Such a terminal can also be the console Some relevant lines from my .muttrc: # I'm not entirely happy with either of those: # works well on well-formatted mail #display_filter=fribidi # For mails that have long lines: display_filter='fmt | fribidi ' # any way to tell fmt that some UTF-8 chars take more than 1 byte? # or maybe skip the "cp1255" one? set send_charset="us-ascii:cp1255:utf-8" # As far as mutt cares ISO-8859-8-I is identical to ISO-8859-8 : charset-hook iso-8859-8-I ISO-8859-8 # Eliminate the no.1 cause for terminal garbage of a misconfigured # terminal: # remove this if you only work from a proper terminal set ascii_chars=yes -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
