> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:32:49 +0200
> From: Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Display of non-ascii chars
>
> Dear all, I have some issue with the displaying of non-ascii chars in my
> mail. I have to admit that I am not 100% sure that this is a mutt-issue
> or more shell or terminal related. Sorry if it is off-topic, I have
> tried all kinds of things to get this right.
this is both mutt and terminal issue
> If an incoming mail contains accents or other non-ascii things, they
> seem to show up as '?' or even blanks within mutt. This is most
> annoying.
> For instance if I look at a 'From' line in a mail that displays
> perfectly in Evolution mail (contains two different 'e' accents), it
> shows:
>
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E9l=E8ne_Corthals?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
looks like you have $LANG set to C, POSIX, or something like that.
what happens if you just cat(1) the message (i. e. view it w/o any
intervening program)? i'd guess it won't come up "right" either.
> in 'less' on the terminal, and the same line in 'mutt' is displayed as:
>
> From: H?el?ne Corthals
>
> Again, I have tried to change char-sets in mutt and other settings that
> I thought might help, all to no avail. Any hints or suggestions are
> indeed much appreciated!
roman@freepuppy ~ 865:1 > echo $LANG
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
roman@freepuppy ~ 866:0 > grep charset .mail/mutt/muttrc
set charset = "iso-8859-2"
set send_charset = "us-ascii:iso-8859-2:utf-8"
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