On Wed, 1999-09-15 23:02:52 +0200, Ralf Orlowski wrote:
> But there´s one problem I couldn´t find a solution for till now.
>
> My charset is set to iso-8859-1. But if I receive a mail with
> german letters like äöüß in it, this letters always just shown as
> ? in the pager.
>
> Can someone tell me, if I´ve missed a setting I could change, so that
> the pager is able to show all characters that are in the iso-8859-1
> charset.
> I´ve read the documentation know about ten times, but couldn´t find
> anything, that changed that behavior.
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.
Just for the sake of comparison, my mutt installation seems to have
no problems with anything in the iso-8859-1 character set.
For example, here is an extract from an email message from a frequent
contributor to the help-gnu-emacs and gnus mailing lists:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann)
On my mutt display, while in the first occurrence of his name appears `ss',
in the second occurrence is a true German eszet (sorry, I forget the actual
German term for the character that looks much like a greek letter beta.)
This is true both in the index and in the pager.
Here's some data on my installation you might find useful for the sake of
comparison:
$ mutt -v
Mutt 0.95.3i (1999-02-12)
[various copyright data]
System: Linux 2.2.12 [using slang 10202]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_IMAP +USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP5
++HAVE_PGP2 +HAVE_GPG -BUFFY_SIZE
-EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
_PGPPATH="/usr/bin/pgp"
_PGPV2PATH="/usr/bin/pgp"
_PGPV3PATH="/usr/bin/pgp"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
mutt is running in an xterm.
There are no LC_..., LANG..., ...CHAR_SET or any other language-related
environment variables defined.
Likewise, I do nothing in my .muttrc for either charset or locale,
just taking the compiled in defaults of iso-8859-1 and C respectively.
But the directory /usr/share/mutt contains a subdirectory `charsets'
which in turn contains a lot of files, including one named `iso-8859-1'
which begins with `Mutt Character Set Definition 1.1' followed by -1,
then every integer from 1 to 255 (decimal).
All this was installed automatically through a Debian 2.1 installation.
I hope that aids in solving the "missing-iso-character-problem"!
