Re: [Mutt] #2990: mutt-1.5.16: utf-8 support broken somewhere
#2990: mutt-1.5.16: utf-8 support broken somewhere between 1.5.13 and 1.5.16
Comment (by Sven Utcke):
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> > I didn't see anything in there which could be relevant.
>
> $assumed_charset might be.
I didn't find any value for which there was no problem :-)
> > What might be relevant though: depending on how I compile I might,
> > beginning with 1.5.15, see lot's of
>
> > Error in /afs/desy.de/user/u/utcke/.mutt/aliases, line 346: Warning:
Bad
> > IDN 'aol.com' in alias 'poqet8_2'.
>
> > on starting, which, I believe, might also be an encoding problem...
>
> Ah, yes, I think I found it. First, the 'Bad IDN' usually means not
> really a bad IDN but an invalid character set (there's a bug already
> open). When looking more closely at your config, I think you got
> iconv-hook exactly the other way arround. By saying
>
> iconv-hook iso-8859-1 ISO8859-1
>
> you say that whenever mutt sees 'iso-8859-1' it should instead use
> 'ISO8859-1' because the local iconv() implementation doesn't know
> 'iso-8859-1' but only 'ISO8859-1'.
Yeah, that's for some old Solaris Version...
> So, to further isolate the source, could you please a) see if the
> problem persists with 'mutt -nF /dev/null' (no config at all),
No, looks fine then. Silly me. I could have tested _that_ first...
> and if
> not b) try removing all charset related lines ($charset, $send_charset,
> iconv-hook and charset-hook).
Ok, lets see...
You were (nearly) right, the problem was:
iconv-hook iso-8859-1 8859-1
Thanks a LOT for your (very prompt) help
Sven
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2990#comment:>