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Re: Screwball characters



On Tuesday 26 October at 12:06pm, cerberos@xxxxxxxxxxx had this to say:

> the problem mustn't be you. what does a "locale" print out? 

LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=


> have you set "set charset="iso-8859-1" in your .muttrc or have you set
> it to something similar? 

It's currently set to 8859-1.  In the past it has been other things,
as I tried to find better settings.

> what's the type of message mutt can't decode? (press 'h' while
> reading a message (shows the headers) and let us know of the
> "Content-Type: ..." line. 

I found one message that mutt gets wrong, and it seems to be from kintera's 
mass mailing
software, sending text/html emails (ugh! but i do want this email...)
encoded in utf-8:

headers>>
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Sender: IMTD_KIN162677330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<</headers

Setting $charset to utf-8 did not make the em-dash that rendered wrong
in this email go away.

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Matthew M Davis
<mmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>