On 20100727_155630, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, July 27 at 12:35 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > 1) The short answer does not work. My copy of Mutt informs me that > > LC_TYPE is not a recognized variable name. >
The line in the web page is; Short answer: set LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1. This is not sh/bash syntax or csh/tcsh syntax, but seems to be muttrc syntax > LC_TYPE (or, more correctly, LC_CTYPE) is not a mutt variable. It > should not be set in your ~/.muttrc. It is an environment variable. It > should be set in your ~/.profile. Also, you should probably set LANG > (also an environment variable) rather than LC_CTYPE. For example, if > you use bash or sh, like so: > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > (Not sure this will appear correctly on your computer. Your computer > > may actually catch the backslash sequences and display the intended > > quotes. On my computer there are TWO backslashes, each followed by > > three digits.) > > Gary is right, the problem is rooted in Redmond. > > > Has anyone here seen this? Could the problem be that > > 'en_US.iso88591' should be 'en_US.iso88591-1'? The email in the > > expample contains 'charset="iso-8859-1"'. Suggestions for a fix/work > > around? > > This has been posted to the list many times, but yes, the recommended > solution is to add the following to your muttrc: > > charset-hook ^unknown-8bit$ windows-1252 > charset-hook ^x-user-defined$ windows-1252 > charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ windows-1252 > charset-hook ^us-ascii$ windows-1252 I don't, to my knowledge have windows-1252 on my system. Is this something that is just there by default on debian, or do I need to get it from somewhere and install it? I ask because without something more these four lines don't fix the problem for me. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
