Hi,
* Sven Hartenstein [02-06-13 17:32:09 +0200] wrote:
> The German umlauts are usually displayed by my mutt
> without problems, however not when I receive mail from a
> particular person. I guess it has to do with her using
> hotmail (?). In these mails, the umlauts and "ß" are
> replaced by a questionmark.
There're two possible reasons:
a) Headers. If it happens with headers then hotmail is
broken since 8bit characters in headers have to be
endcoded.
b) Body. Hotmail doesn't set the content-type and the
character set correctly or the encoding is broken. The
problem is, that mutt assumes 7bit ASCII text if
nothing is specified allthough the raw mail is okay. In
this case hotmail is broken, too.
> I have "LC_CTYPE=de_DE" in my .bash_profile.
That won't help if the Content-Type of the mail is broken,
i.e. not specified at all.
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
That was your stupid question? ;-) I thought it would take
longer before your first one...
I could think of a procmail solution setting the header
fields correctly.
Cheers, Rocco
