Alan Yaniger wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 14:09:06 +0200:
> Hi Linux-IL members,
>
> I'm using bidiv to read Hebrew in mutt.
>
> It works ok with reading Hebrew messages, but not when reading the
> subject headers, which still show the Hebrew backwards.
>
Personally, I set edit_headers=on, and when I want to "reverse" an RTL
subject or body I type 'g' to open it in $EDITOR, read it there, and
then discard the editor. That's not a great solution but it works well
when the volume of RTL mail is low.
(more below)
> So I wrote the following script caled "bidi_index" to enable reading of
> Hebrew in the subjects:
>
> echo $@ > /tmp/index.out && bidiv /tmp/index.out
>
> and I added to .muttrc the following:
>
> set index_format = "/home/alan/.mutt/bidi_index %D %-15.15L %s (%Z) |"
>
> (I tried piping the text directly to bidiv, but I got an error, so I write to
> a temp file, and I have my script read the temp file.)
>
> Mutt shows the Hebrew properly, but it creates a new problem. The minimum
> length for the sender's name no longer works. My setting is for a minimum
> length of 15 chars, as in the index_format setting I quoted above, but if the
> name is less than 15 chars, mutt does not pad the rest of the 15 chars with
> blanks.
>
> This problem doesn't exist if I don't pipe to my script.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix with this problem, or does anyone have an
> alternative way of displaying Hebrew in mutt (which you've checked gets
> around this problem)?
>
Did you try changing
echo $@
to
echo "$@"?
The difference:
% sh -c 'echo $@' - 'foo ' bar
foo bar
% sh -c 'echo "$@"' - 'foo ' bar
foo bar
That's still not robust — it breaks when $1 is -e or -n. If that's a
concern, use printf(1) instead of echo.
Cheers,
Daniel
> I'm using Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) on a gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 12.04,
> with LC_ALL="en_US.utf8".
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