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