On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:00:36PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote: > > the sender of the message always shows up as "????????? ???????" > > Looks like a Tamil name. Your current charset does not have those > rather uncommon characters, so Mutt is masking them with question > marks. To display them correctly you'd need an UTF-8 terminal and > locale (perhaps exporting LANG=en_US.UTF-8). And more difficult you'd > need a font having the wanted glyphs (I checked all my fonts without > success).
Aha! My friend who sends me this message is a Tamilian, so this is very likely. I'll try and find a Tamil font under Linux, or just pester him into translating his name into English :). Thanks, GI -- Alternative definitions of terms from Math Lectures: TWO LINE PROOF: The rest of the lecture will be spent writing fifty odd lines, after which the proof will still be incomplete.
