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Re: Reading UTF-8 Mail



* Richard Cobbe on Friday, May 05, 2006 at 10:13:59 -0400:
>   2) With LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8" (no quotes) but no other
>      locale-related environment variables explicitly set.  With that, I
>      get the following output:
> 
>         [Ridcully:~]$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale
>         LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>         LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
> 
>      Under these circumstances, mutt displays neither UTF-8 characters
>      nor the index correctly -- either in an xterm using an ISO10646
>      font, or in Apple's Terminal.app explicitly configured for UTF-8.

Is your muttrc in UTF?

Instead of converting all your config files you could try

$ mutt -F /dev/null -f /path/to/mailbox

to check whether the behaviour persists.

At least it works for me ;-)

c
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