Thanks for all your help. I've got the answer - 'unset meta_key'.
Setting meta_key will strip the 8th bit of any 8bit key value, which is both the key value of alt-key and mbyte characters. best regards, charlie On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:49:45PM +0800, ¬ö¬K¿³/Charles Jie wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > > thanks, > best regards, > charlie