On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:11:50PM +0200, Marc wrote: > I have a little problem displaying the Euro symbol (among some others) > in mutt. It always ends up in "\200" instead of the Euro symbol. I use > XTerm as my terminal. Maybe that's of interest for someone. > > Mails in which the Euro symbol is displayed wrong were sent with > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > ... mostly by MS Outlook. > > Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on the list that would help me > fix this issue. I use mutt 1.3.28i on a clean MDK 8.2 install with all > updates applied. I appologize in case this has been discussed before. > > So, is the problem to be solved by my mutt configuration or is it an XTerm > thing? I think this problem is to be solved by procmail. Your mails have 2 problems : they don't use a standard encoding and they put a wrong Content-Type: charset. To be able to see the ¤ character, you *need* iso-8859-15 or utf-8 (or maybe some other encodings, but it doesn't exist in iso-8859-1). So you'll have to change the Content-Type: to iso-8859-15. The second problem is that MS doesn't use iso-8859-15 to display the ¤, but has created a non-standard encoding : windows-1252. I advise you to use the "recode" program to do it : recode -f windows-1252/CR-LF..ISO_8859-15 So just use procmail with formail and recode to fix mails that you know having theses issues. -- Bernard Massot
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