On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:31:03AM -0500, timothy parkinson wrote: > I have an issue where mails coming to me display certain characters as the "?" > character instead. Apostrophe's "'" and dashes "-" seem to be the most common > characters affected. > > I'm pretty sure it relates to the character set that the mail is in, as > evidenced by the Content-Type header: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yup, that means the email was written in the ISO-8859-1 charset. Mutt uses your libc to determine what can and can't be displayed properly, and displays the latter as "?" by default. > If I open the file containing the mail in vim - it displays the characters as > codes like "=B4" and "=96". That's probably because the mail also contains a header like this: Content-Encoding: quoted-printable You can try saving the body of the mail to a file from within Mutt itself (so it decodes the thing), and then opening that file with VIM. However, it's worth noting that VIM isn't a very good indicator of whether or not your libc is setup correctly. I'd suggest reading the archives of this list, as the subject's been discussed numerous times already, and I don't think anybody but you really wants to have to read the procedure yet again in his inbox ;-) > Could somebody possibly point me in the right direction to fix this? Much > thanks in advance... Well, you need to tell libc what charset your terminal uses. I have the following in my ~/.bashrc, for example: $ grep LC_ALL ~/.bashrc LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 export LC_ALL What you should use will depend on many factors. As I said above, reading the archives is a good idea before posting a question. If after working with the archives you still have troubles that aren't solved there, post here and people won't ignore you. - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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