On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 21:54:22 -0400, Derek Martin sent: ----8<---- >This has been discussed fairly recently, and there is a >configuration setting which will make mutt cope with these >characters... but it would be far nicer if people would just not >use these largely unavailable and extremely annoying characters >in their e-mail. As I'm using a UTF-8 locale with suitable >fonts, I can see them... so I don't remember the configuration >option, but no doubt someone will repeat and/or point you to it. >But these characters have previously annoyed me in mail and >other contexts (like web pages) for a very long time... Sigh. > I added the following lines to my .muttrc after the last time this subject came up: # See: http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset set charset = "//TRANSLIT" #iso-8859-15 Since then I have had no problems reading emails with weird and wonderful character sets. Like HTML emails, the usage of cp1232 is a fact of life. While we don't like them, there are ways to deal with them without getting annoyed. Life is too short! Hope this help; --paj -- Pete Johns <http://johnsy.com/> Tel/Fax numbers and IM information <http://johnsy.com/contact/> Links, links, links... <http://johnsy.com/20060428092822>
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