Re: howto get mutt to display "circled numbers"
Hi Henry!
On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 11:59:46 +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> mail that contains "circled numbers". In mutt, these show up as "??"
The mail is labelled charset=euc-jp, but contains bytes AD A1. This
sequence is not defined in EUC-JP. It is defined in EUC-JISX0213 though,
as U+2460 CIRCLED DIGIT ONE. So it's a liar label case, subject to
correction by <edit-type> or charset-hook:
| charset-hook ^euc-jp$ euc-jisx0213
...does solve *this* problem. But I'm not sure it hasn't drawbacks
(like losing ™ U+2122 trade mark sign). BTW in libiconv you need
--enable-extra-encodings for EUC-JISX0213.
> [with] cat, they are displayed correctly as circled numbers.
Probably your terminal is somewhere between or above euc-jp and
euc-jisx0213: I get both (one) and (TM) on PuTTY 0.56 + Japanese patch
in EUC-JP translation (printf "\xAD\xA1 \x8F\xA2\xEF\n"). No iconv known
charset has both those chars. Neither Glibc iconv. I don't know if it's
bug or feature in iconv or terminal. But (one) and (TM) are just
examples: Some hundreds of chars are specific to one or the other
charset.
Bye! Alain.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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