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Re: Reading UTF-8 Mail



On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:10:53PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * 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?

No, it's in US-ASCII.  (If this is significant, I'm going to be really
disgusted with the software engineering.  If I explicitly tell Mutt to
put itself into UTF-8, it shouldn't override that preference just
because the config file is in a different encoding.)

> Instead of converting all your config files you could try
> 
> $ mutt -F /dev/null -f /path/to/mailbox
> 
> to check whether the behaviour persists.

Yup, still broken.

Richard