Re: setting default encodings
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:12:57AM +0200, Toby wrote:
>
> Michael's line reads:
> "I think you're looking for the 'charset' and 'send_charset' variables;
> look them up in the manual and experiment with various settings."
It does? Are lines magically appearing in your emails that aren't
appearing in mine?
>
>
> > If I get an email in UTF-8, I need to send it in UTF-8. If I
> > accidently send it out as ASCII, then it becomes garbled.
>
> If I get an email in UTF-8 and forward or reply to it, my editor shows
> the correct international characters (does yours?) Then, when I exit
> the editor, mutt recognizes those characters and recodes the message in
> the minimum charset which can contain all the characters used.
> (eg. ASCII ??? Latin1 ??? Unicode ??? this mail will be sent in UTF-8 :)
No, mine does not.
>
> The fact that you need to manually set the encoding when replying or
> forwarding some mail is a symptom of a deeper problem with your
> terminal, editor or locale settings.
>
Not with the editor, which is gvim. I don't know about terminal or
locale. How do I check these?
Paul
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