Re: bug#1660: Repyling with extended charactors in the From:
Is the locales package installed? If not, that might be the
problem.
On 2003-10-08 01:42:56 +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
> From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
> To: 1660@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Mutt dev ml <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>, Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 01:42:56 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: Re: bug#1660: Repyling with extended charactors in the From:
> Mail-Followup-To: 1660@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Mutt dev ml <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>,
> Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@xxxxxxxx>
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>
> Hello Andrew, thanks for your report.
>
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 4:45:43 PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > Package: Mutt=20
> > Version: 1.5.4i
> >
> > I have the following email header:
> >
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Stress testing JFFS2
> > From: \330yvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Note that \330 is actually a Ö. Its a Scandinavian name.
> >
> > When i try to reply to this, either group or normal reply, mutt always
> > gives me a blank To: prompt instead of giving putting the email there
> > as it normally does. The extended character is confusing mutt.
>
> I full quote you because your bug report was not auto-forwarded to
> mutt-dev, perhaps due to the mangled =20 package name. Interested people
> can look at <URL:http://bugs.guug.de/db/16/1660.html>.
>
>
> Let me try a guess: You have an UTF-8 terminal, a correctly set
> system locale, the given char is Ø (stroked O), and the 0xD8 byte is raw
> in header, unencoded. Right?
>
> So the problem is not really in Mutt, but in the sender's mail (or
> in a too smart filter on rubicon.hasler.ascom.ch). You can either:
>
> - Urge your Scandinavian friend to set correctly his mailer, encoding
> headers to RFC 2047.
>
> - Apply Takashi Takizawa's JA patch and use its $assumed_charset
> feature. Look at <URL:http://www.emaillab.org/mutt/download15.html>.
>
> - Downgrade your terminal to a Latin-1 one.
>
>
> Otherwise, if I guessed wrong, please provide us complete context
> informations about your setup: OS, versions, iconv, terminal, charset,
> locale, usw... So we can investigate.
>
>
> Bye! Alain.