I posted this question yesterday and have had no replies or follow-ups.
Does that mean that no-one else has this problem? Or that loads of
people have the problem and they can't solve it either?? I find it hard
to believe that either of those explanations is true.
I'd appreciate any insights as to why my posting got no response!
Thanks,
Dave.
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Hello Mutt people,
Something that's been bugging me over the last few days/weeks since I
upgraded from Mutt 1.2.x to Mutt 1.3.x - "special" characters aren't
displayed properly.
e.g. the UK pound sign, £ (don't know how that'll appear for most of
you) appears as \243 (that's backslash, 2, 4, 3). This behaviour is
with all versions 1.3.7 to 1.3.9, and I assume it's something to do with
the iconv setup, although this support is compiled in properly as far as
I can tell:
Mutt 1.3.9i (2000-09-21)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.2.17 [using ncurses 4.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
-USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS -HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
This is definitely a problem I having with the Mutt pager, since if I
reply to a message, the pound sign appears correctly in the editor,
presumably because Vim is displaying it, not Mutt.
I tried recompiling with the --enable-locales-fix option, but that
resulted in the same behaviour.
What am I doing wrong? I am running Mutt in an Eterm under KDE, if
that's useful info, and I get the same behaviour in a Konsole. In all
circumstances, Mutt 1.2.5 works fine.
Dave.
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Dave.
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Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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