Re: special chars

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 the mental interface of
TAKAHASHI Tamotsu told:

> * Sun Mar 18 2007 Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@xxxxxxxx>
> > I've compiled a today's hg clone. Mutt doesn't show special chars
> > like the `German Umlauts' -> ae_?_ ue_?_ oe_?_ sz_?_ anymore. Plain
> > 1.5.14 does.  No changes to muttrc.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> Where did those chars come from? Mail, or mutt itself?
> If they are from mail, does the message have "charset" parameter
> in its "Content-Type:" header?
> Mutt now has a sanitizing feature called "assumed_charset",
> which assumes that a message with no "charset" is in US-ASCII,
> instead of your locale, by default. Of cource you can set
>  "assumed_charset=iso-8859-1:utf-8"
>  "assumed_charset=$charset:utf-8"
> or anything you like. Assuming US-ASCII is RFC-compliant, IIRC.
>
> Hmm, maybe this should be explicitly written in UPDATING:
>  + $assumed_charset (for messages with no charset parameter)
>  ! such messages were assumed to be in $charset. you can
>    set assumed_charset=$charset to get the old behavior.
>  + $attach_charset (for attachments to send)

My charsets:
set charset="iso-8859-1"
set assumed_charset="iso-8859-1:utf8"

The locale should be ok since vim console and friends are displaying
the correct chars.

Actually ? as ue is right in vim but let's see the mail coming back
to my mutt-dev folder.

Please notice, that a checkout from 20070301 works well with the
exact same rc settings.

Elimar


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