I am using mutt in utf-8 mode (mutt-utf8_1.4.0-4_i386.deb with LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8). Together with xterm and vim this works very well. Both european and asian letters show up correctly (in the same terminal) as long as they have the correct mime charset.
However, if the charset is not defined, or even worse, set to ascii, the mail shows up with unrecognized characters (?, dashed box or as \xxx). In the pager I can fix this with a display filter or by the set mime-encoding (^E) command. Incorrect (non-ascii) headers are more of a problem. When replying to an incorrectly coded mail both the to: and subject-field may become broken (after the first non-ascii character). The lines in the index menu may also appear unreadible. Is there a nice solution to this problem? Another (cosmetic) issue with utf-8 is in the query menu. If the names include non-ascii characters, the following columns become ragged (unaligned). Is this a bug (strlen instead wcwidth in query.c) or is it due to my terminal setting? Anders
