Hello,
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:28:10PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
>
> Can some kind soul point me to the docs I need to read to figure out why
> I see things like this:
>
> \251 allie\260M
>
> In some messages? \260 is the degree symbol and \251 is the copyright
> symbol, I think.
Seems that this is the product of mutt's idea of which characters are
displayable using your current charset. What is encoding of the message
(you can see it using the "v" key) and your current charset (":set
charset"<enter>)? I think you can check whether the symbols would
display correctly on your terminal with something like "echo -e '\251'"
(single quotes are important), if your echo supports "-e" switch.
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
