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character set for configuration files/aliases?



Hi,

I've recently upgraded from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1, which has switched to UTF-8
(to the extent that its software supports it, but let's not rant).

I haven't touched my aliases file that I'm sourcing in since before the
upgrade, and so it was still in the ISO-8859-1 character set.

I have an alias

alias hans Hans Mußtermann <hans.musstermann@xxxxxxxxxxx>

And receive mails from hans without him giving his real name in the mail
address.

Mutt, using the aliases to display full names, now presents the mail as
coming from Hans Mu[]termann, where [] is the single character cell
dotted box that designates an invalid character - converting the file to
UTF-8 fixed the problem for now, but logging in from an ISO-8859-1
terminal again misrepresents the name.

Is there a way to declare (or guess) the character set for mutt's
configuration files? If not, consider this a feature request.

TIA,

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Matthias Andree

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