Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-23 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:14:01PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote: > Hello Chris, > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 12:53:07 +, Chris Green wrote: > > > 'locale' reports:- > >| LANG=en_GB.utf8 > >| LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 > >| LC_COLLATE=C > > You can remove the $LC_CTYPE variable from your env

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-23 Thread Alain Bench
Hello Chris, On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 12:53:07 +, Chris Green wrote: > 'locale' reports:- >| LANG=en_GB.utf8 >| LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 >| LC_COLLATE=C You can remove the $LC_CTYPE variable from your environment: The $LANG var suffices to give the very same result. Define individual

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, March 19 at 02:14 PM, quoth Chris G: >Well I'm still not sure things are right, even after getting my >editor to do (approximately) the right thing. > >Here are some incorrect pound signs:- Those are all encoded as three bytes: 0xEF 0xB

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 19.03.08 14:37:58, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 19 Mar 2008 14:14 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > > > ?� > > This shows up to me (on a thoroughly UTF-8 system) as 56 undisplayable >

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:34:36AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-19-08 10:16]: > > Well I'm still not sure things are right, even after getting my editor > > to do (approximately) the right thing. > > > > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > > > �

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 19 Mar 2008 14:14 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > ?� This shows up to me (on a thoroughly UTF-8 system) as 56 undisplayable glyps, one question mark, and one more undisplayable glyph.

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-19-08 10:16]: > Well I'm still not sure things are right, even after getting my editor > to do (approximately) the right thing. > > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > ?� > > Here are some correct

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008, Chris G wrote: > > Yes, that's it, *everything* was actually alright except my editor > > wasn't entering UTF-8 pounds signs (etc.). The rest of the system > > just did its best to work around the resulting confu

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:47:51AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, March 19 at 12:53 PM, quoth Chris G: > > It seems to me that mutt is actually *encoding* the characters wrong > > (or it's using a library that's doing that) as even if I save the > > sentmail copy of a message with (fo

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008, Chris G wrote: > Yes, that's it, *everything* was actually alright except my editor > wasn't entering UTF-8 pounds signs (etc.). The rest of the system > just did its best to work around the resulting confusion. What editor are you using? -Ken

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, March 19 at 12:53 PM, quoth Chris G: > It seems to me that mutt is actually *encoding* the characters wrong > (or it's using a library that's doing that) as even if I save the > sentmail copy of a message with (for example) pounds signs

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:10:29PM +, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:54:15PM +0100, Peter Münster wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > > > However I can't seem to get mutt set up correctly, if I enter symbols > > > like GB pound signs or accented characters in an E

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:54:15PM +0100, Peter Münster wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > However I can't seem to get mutt set up correctly, if I enter symbols > > like GB pound signs or accented characters in an E-Mail then when I > > view the E-Mail using mutt I see reverse vide

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Chris G wrote: > However I can't seem to get mutt set up correctly, if I enter symbols > like GB pound signs or accented characters in an E-Mail then when I > view the E-Mail using mutt I see reverse video ? instead of the > correct characters. Hello Chris, Does the terminal

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:13:39PM +, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:03:14AM +, Michael Kjorling wrote: > > On 19 Mar 2008 10:40 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > > > in mutt I have "set charset=utf-8". > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > There was a discussion

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:03:14AM +, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 19 Mar 2008 10:40 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > > in mutt I have "set charset=utf-8". > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > There was a discussion about this just recently, starting with > message-ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 19 Mar 2008 10:40 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > in mutt I have "set charset=utf-8". > > What am I doing wrong? There was a discussion about this just recently, starting with message-ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In short, first off, try to avoid setting $charset and see what that does. -