On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: > boris karlov muttered: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: > > > boris karlov muttered: > > > > i have charset="koi8-r" but mutt always assumes that my text/plain > > > > attachments are in us-ascii charset if there is no certain charset > > > > record in `Content-Type:' field. > > > > do you know how to avoid such a behaviour of 1.2.5? > > > > > > Look for charset-hook in the manual. > > > > > charset-hook alias charset > > This command defines an alias for a character set. > > This is useful to properly display messages which > > are tagged with a character set name not known to > > mutt. > > > > ...messages which _are_tagged_ with a character set name not to mutt... > > but i mean attachments with "Content-Type: text/plain", there is no charset > > part _at_all_. > > Well, "" is a charset too, isn't it?
-- i've tried this already. but, unfortunately, it does not work: :charset-hook "" koi8-r\n empty (sub)expression gonna try `charset-hook another_regexp koi8-r' (e.g. `charset-hook .* koi8-r' ;-)) Michael, 10x. > > charset "" kio8-r or the matching ISO-whatever > > does what you want. I use > > charset-hook "" iso-8859-1 > > for the very same reason. Mutt assumes us-ascii, if nothing is specified > - according to the relevant RFCs, I presume. I often get mail with > German umlauts from people with broken mailers and the above helps me > reading those messages a lot. :) >
