Joss Winn wrote:-
> Well, Neil, I have good news for you!
>
> First, I am using the default version of Mutt that comes with SUSE
> 7.1 PPC (which has very good Japanese support in it for the first
> time). It is version 1.3.12i-0. I do not think it was patched for
> Japanese as the SUSE developer working on Japanese support has not
> had anything to do with Mutt.
I'm using Debian's 1.3.17i which is lightly patched, if at all.
> The lines that worked for me are:
>
> setcharset="euc-jp"
> setsendcharset="us-ascii:iso-2022-jp"
> setrfc2047_parameters=yes
>
> I've no idea what the last one does or if it really is that
> important. Something to do with attachments?
>
> So, to summarise, I am running an English language environment,
> calling applications for Japanese with LANG=ja_JP <app>. I am using the above
>version of Mutt in a kterm
> with canna and kinput2. My Mutt folder menu has a 月 where the
> month column is, and all Japenese sent to me has clearly visible
> subject lines and body text. I use the alpha version of vim without any
> problems to compose messages.
That's peculiar - it doesn't work for me. I see Japanese dates in the
date column, unlike you. My LANG is ja_JP.EUC-JP, but even with just ja_JP
I still get them.
However, after saving my Japanese file in emacs as iso-2022-jp, when it returns
to Mutt it is all screwed up - there are no Japanese characters, just garbage
as the Subject and body. What do you have as your pager settings? Would you
mind sending me your whole .muttrc?
The really odd thing is that I can read old Japanese mails fine. I suspect Mutt
is not treating the newly created mail as iso-2022-jp; but I have no idea why.
With these applications I'm always a bit disappointed at how slowly the Japanese
people get their patches in the mainstream, and their fixes always seem to be with
just Japanese in mind, and not the "big picture" i.e. doing something general
so that it can work for any language.
Neil.
