On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Richard Curnow wrote: > I've been following the UTF-8 discussion. For me, I can't even get > iso-8869-1 characters in the 128-255 range to display correctly.
you don't mention what your locale is set to (e.g., $LC_ALL and related environment variables). That's independent of slang/ncurses. mutt is supplying the ?'s. To display UTF-8 with ncurses, you need the wide-character version libncursesw. ISO-8859-1 works either way. > > The content-type line in the message looks like: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > and if I 'more' or 'cat' the message to the terminal (I'm using > maildir), the accented characters show up fine, so the terminal is > basically up to the job and has a font with the characters in it. > > However, inside mutt's pager I get varying forms of junk depending on > the setting of charset, e.g. > > charset=us-ascii gives > ????e? > > charset=iso-8859-1 gives > \344\341\337\351e\350 > > charset=utf-8 gives > \303\244\303\241\303\237\303\251e\303\250 > (OK, not much of a surprise) > > The output of 'cat' correctly shows the 6 characters: > a-umlaut > a-acute > scharfes-S > e-acute > plain e > e-grave > > This is mutt 1.4i, I have the problem with either xterm or rxvt, and > with both slang and ncurses builds of mutt. > > Where's my problem? > > Cheers > Richard > > -- > Richard \\\ SuperH Core+Debug Architect /// .. At home .. > P. /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Curnow \\\ http://www.superh.com/ /// www.rc0.org.uk > Speaking for myself, not on behalf of SuperH -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
