Re: e-mail encoding/formatting (was Re: Split-screen mode in mutt?)
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On Thursday, May 4 at 11:40 PM, quoth cga2000:
> Well, things may not be that trivial after all. With my new setup
> Kyle's curly quotes are displayed correctly. The message above does
> not.
Now that's just weird.
> 1. My attempt at curly quotes is rendered by displaying what I
> assume is the three-byte values of the character in the UTF-8
> encoding:
> x'e2809c'and x'e2809d'. Mutt's - or whatever's - rendering is actually
> an equal sign followed by the hex value of the first byte, followed by
> another '=' followed by the hex value of the second.. etc.
That's what's known as "quoted-printable" encoding
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable). Normally, mutt should
transform that into the encoded bytes for you. I have no idea why it
wouldn't... And I have no idea why it would work for my email but not
yours, since our emails are encoded in exactly the same way. You may
have found a mutt bug of some kind...
Try this experiment: send yourself a message with curly-quotes in it,
then send yourself another one with an attachment (doesn't matter
what, just so long as it's an attachment). Is there a difference?
(There *shouldn't* be, but the attachment is the only thing I can
think of that's different between our two emails.)
> 2. There are a bunch of =20 artefacts in my email, some
> corresponding to the first '.' of my personal rendering of the
> ellipsis using what en.US has to offer - I just type two dots like
> so: '..' uses less space than three dots..
That goes back to the quoted-printable thing; 's just the way it does
it. What matters here is that for whatever reason, mutt isn't decoding
it for you.
> Same behavior in linux console (after unicode-start) and xterm -e8.
...you mean xterm -u8, right?
You may also want to try:
env LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8
> Interestingly, the above message displays correctly in mozilla-mail.
Because it should! :)
> I don't know if anyone is seeing what I am seeing but does anyone
> guess at what the problem could be?
Wish I could be of more help - your messages all look fine to me.
~Kyle
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