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. > > 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 > Kyle, I'm still having problems. I'd like to read some documentation that expands on what these configuration lines do. I can't find any mention of unknown-8bits or x-user-defined in the Mutt E-Mail Client manual. And I'm unable to find the discussions of charset in the email archive. What I have found is: __________________________________________ 6. Defining Aliases for Character Sets
Usage: charset-hook alias charset iconv-hook charset local-charset The charset-hook command defines an alias for a character set. This is useful to properly display messages which are tagged with a character set name not known to Mutt. The iconv-hook command defines a system-specific name for a character set. This is helpful when your systems character conversion library insists on using strange, system-specific names for character sets. ___________________________ In this, iconv-hook is described as a method of handling a 'character set name' that is not known to Mutt. Is there a place where I can find a list of the character set names that are known to the copy of Mutt on my machine? Where? How? Or (gently, please) why is this a silly question? The recommended additions to my .muttrc appear to use a regualar expression for the value of 'alias'. What part of an email system would insert things like unknown-8bit into the headers of an email? I am certain that my system is improperly configured. I want to fix it. I have tried many things, well beyond what I would ask you to read about. But nothing, as done by me, has fixed the problem(s) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
