[Using Mutt-1.5.21 with FreeBSD and Arch Linux] Hi there,
I noticed a nasty behaviour I do not understand. It happens if the e-mail contains latin characters with acute, like 'é', but no unicode character not covered by latin1. The text editor -- Emacs, but I tested with others too -- will correctly set it to UTF-8. file /tmp/mutt-... will confirm this. When I close the editor, thus swithing back to Mutt, it sees the content as iso8859-1. This is on the "Mutt Compose" screen, right before actually sending the mail. Of course I can convert it at this very same point with the 'edit-type' function. But I do not want to do it manually. It would be nice if I could send all my mails in UTF-8 automatically. If I add a unicode character not covered by Latin1 (e.g. '€'), then the e-mail is correctly marked as being utf-8. All my locale variables are set to "en_US.UTF-8". And :set &charset ?charset returns 'utf-8'. So I guess it comes from Mutt that fails at guessing the proper character encoding. I do not know how it works internally, but I do not have so much time right now to crawl in the source code. To reproduce the issue: write a e-mail with the sole letter 'é' as content. Note that the e-mail is not screwed up. It gets properly converted from utf-8 to latin1, 'é' goes from a9c3 (utf-8) to e9 (latin1). Any clue? Cheers.
