Thus spake Alexander Dahl [08/29/07 @ 10.36.07 +0200]: > Hi folks, > > I know, I'm a little off-topic, but I have a question about a charset issue: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:39:54PM -0400, Crist??bal M. Palmer wrote: > ^^ > > Crist?bal Palmer > ^ > > I have a clean mutt 1.5.16 running on a linux with locale "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > which > is in fact iso8859-15. I connect with PuTTY configured to the same locale. > The above quoted message has charset utf8 both in Subject and message body. > Mutt displays message body correctly but Subject is not correctly decoded as > you can see above. > > Did I miss some in my configuration (I can't imagine), is this a bug in > mutt I should report or is it a wrong coded mail?
This seems like a good time for me to jump in ... for me, the "from" line is rendered correctly but the signature is not. But the point of my post is this: the correctly-shown "from" is the very first time, ever, in my history with mutt that an accented character has been displayed. Normally, I get either a single question-mark or a double one. I have tried setting my terminal app to UTF-8, ASCII, MacRoman, etc., but none of that makes it appear correctly. I looked online at the wiki/faq/charset, and as it instructed I looked at $LANG. I found that echo $LANG returned nothing. (I'm on MacOSX 10.4, using Terminal.app). So I followed the wiki and did this: export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1. Still no dice, although the accented 'o' in 'Cristobal' stopped being rendered correctly, and now looks like this: Crist\xxx\xxxbal, where the x's are digits. Still following the wiki, I tried checking to see if mutt picked up on the fact that I changed $LANG, by typing :set &charset ?charset. Mutt revealed that charset="US-ASCII". Meanwhile, my terminal application (not bash) is still on UTF-8. For that matter, terminal-vim never displays accented characters correctly, either, whether it's called by mutt or not. But I don't think vim is the culprit, because mutt displays them wrongly in the index view and when reading messages. What do I do? Thanks much, -G
