On 2024-06-21 10:34, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 21 Jun 2024 09:52 +0200, from mutt-users@mutt.org (Jan Eden via > Mutt-users): > >> I noticed that non-ascii characters in recipient names become garbled > >> recently (in Mutt 2.2.13, installed via Homebrew): > >> > >> "Basi´c, P." <addr...@recipient.name> > >> > >> becomes > >> > >> "Basi´c, P." <addr...@recipient.name> > > I don't see any difference between those two. Using the values from > your original post: > > $ printf '"Basi´c, P."' | xxd > 00000000: 2242 6173 69c2 b463 2c20 502e 22 "Basi..c, P." > $ printf '"Basi´c, P."' | xxd > 00000000: 2242 6173 69c2 b463 2c20 502e 22 "Basi..c, P." > $ > > in addition to looking the same when rendered, they appear to be > identical. Yes, I copied the respective versions from your email. > > Do they appear different to you? If so, in what way?
Sorry, I should have expected that. The attached screenshot shows the difference. [Edit: Screenshot removed due to its size; problem is solved, s. below] > > So for some reason, mutt seems to have switched from using utf-8 to > > iso-8859-1 for encoding, and I cannot figure out why it did. This > > affects not only headers, but the mail body, too. > > Check the values for $send_charset and $charset. Per the manual > <http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-charset> the default for > $send_charset is to use ISO-8859-1 in preference of UTF-8 if possible, > but to fall back to UTF-8 if neither US-ASCII nor ISO-8859-1 can > encode the contents of the email. $charset was set to utf-8 already, while $send_charset contained "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8". > You may also want to check $allow_8bit. In today's environment, it > should probably be turned on unless you have a specific reason to turn > it off. > > In my case, I have explicitly set $send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8" for > best adherence to RFC 5198. (Technically, since everything US-ASCII is > also valid UTF-8, I could in principle remove the US-ASCII part; but > with it, if an email can be represented in US-ASCII, the recipient > does not need to understand UTF-8 at all.) I followed the advice regarding $send_charset, and the change solved my problem! While this is great, I wonder why this changed some days ago, because mutt did use utf-8 automatically when sending messages for several years now (until 2024-06-13, to be exact). Thank you! - Jan
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