On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:50:40PM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > * Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20081103 14:03]: > > I saved a few messages to mutt folders that had Russian or Asian > > Characters in the subject line. Now when I look at those saved messages > > the Russian/Asian characters are no longer displayed. Is there any way > > to make mutt work with UTF-8 so that email message text does not get > > screwed up? > > > > Thanks. > > > > mutt (at least the version I have) works fine with Unicode characters > as long as your terminal and LANG settings handle it. I run mutt in > urxvt, and with the font "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-10". This does display > most kanji, chinese and cyrillic characters I have come across. LANG > is set to en_GB.utf8. > > HTH, Did you try saving the messages and verifying that the saved messages still display properly? Where is LANG set? I am using xterm and I wonder if a yum update could have changed those settings.
I am currently reading the book _Unicode Explained_ by Jukka K. Korpela, and getting Unicode to work across the desktop is more involved than I originally thought.
