Re: e-mail encoding/formatting (was Re: Split-screen mode in mutt?)
Thus spake Pete Johns on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +1000 or thereabouts:
<paj-mutt@xxxxxxxxxx> [2006-04-30 23:50]:
> 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
that did the trick.. was not using the correct syntax, for some reason.
thanks a bunch.
cga