Thank you, Sven. Unicode is a much more complex topic than our problem. Especially its various encoding schemes.
Our problem is a simple one - 8bit transparency, while each Traditional Chinese character is double-byte - fixed - in zh_TW.Big5. (unicode-based text is not our normal practice for daily life. Nor in ten years.) * Few text utilities/softwares support unicode today yet but most of them allow 8bit text to work well. Unfortunately, mutt is one of the few exceptions (though not truly unfriendly). I hope someone familiar to mutt's code can fix it soon. (The following is in my /etc/inputrc, should be OK.) # 8Bits supports. set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set input-meta on set output-meta on best regards, charlie On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:36:46AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-03 14:50]: > > I can read and write mail of 8bit charset (Traditional Chinese) in mutt. > > But I can not input them in mutt's command line - such as To:, Subject:, > > Search, Alias (the characters from XIM are stripped of the 8th bit). > > Is there a setting to enable 8bit characters in command line at bottom? > > "Unicode support is scheduled for mutt-2.0". (that *always* works - hehe.) > okok - could it be that your shell is not configured for 7bit characters? > > check the /etc/inputrc! > set input-meta on > set output-meta on > > Sven
