Hello everybody, I suspect I have a similar encoding problem like the one discussed today. (in the thread: "quoting urls in replies". It might be trivial and i apologize if it is. I did try to RTFM and i have been pondering this with growing desperation:
The problem in short: When I write mails with german umlauts to myself, I get them back with the umlauts displayed as questionmarks. I use vim to write my mails (i tell mutt to use it via an entry "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim" in .bashrc) when I write the mail umlauts are displayed nicely. but if I postpone the message and resume writing afterwords the umlauts are allready gone. (I guess that has to to with mutt opening a new tmp-file). The output of ":set all" in vim shows among other things "encoding=utf-8" The output of "locale" in bash: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= No "$charset" ist set in .muttrc And one more really strange thing: All of this happens on a custom gnome desktop environment. If I switch to a Terminal without X. Bash displays all the capitalized umlauts and the small a-umlaut but not the small u-umlaut and the small o-umlaut, it simply presents a space instead (whereas vim or mutt show some graphical characters that I have never seen before for these and only for these umlauts) I am aware that I might have explained all this badly. That is because i don't understand the problem. If somebody can tell me the right RTFMs to read i will happily do that homework first. Thanks jan -- ÄÄÄÄääääÖÖÖÖööööÜÜÜÜüüüüßßßß Was lange g?rt wird endlich Wut.
