On 8 Oct 2024 08:55 +0200, from mutt-users@mutt.org (Jan Eden via Mutt-users):
> I need to use mutt within the WSL of MS Windows. To display HTML
> mails via mailcap, I created a small script which reads from STDIN,
> writes a temporary file and opens it with the Edge browser:
>
> # ~/.mutt/mailcap
> text/html; ~/.mutt/htmlviewer html
>
> # ~/.mutt/htmlviewer
> with open('/var/tmp/htmlfile', 'w') as tmp_file:
> for line in sys.stdin:
> tmp_file.write(line)
>
> This works for some messages, but for others, a UnicodeEncodeError is
> returned:
Try using something not quite as clever.
#!/bin/sh
cat - >/var/tmp/htmlfile
[whatever you need to do to open it in Edge goes here]
An alternative might be to offload to something like xdg-open or
Windows' "start" from within the mailcap, if you can do that from
within WSL; with or without "needsterminal" in the mailcap.
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