Re: Weird UTF-8 problem
Hello Magnus,
On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 16:43:37 +0200, Magnus Cappelen Solvang wrote:
> If I press r for Reply on a mail with norwegian characters - half the
> times vim will show the correct characters, while they will be garbled
> the rest of the times. r for Reply, :q to quit without editing, and r
> for Reply again over and over will alternate on the displayed result.
Just a guess: You use a random signature, sometimes containing
accented characters written in Latin-1. This perturbates Vim's charset
auto-sensing mechanism ($fileencodings), giving apparently good sig and
new text but garbled quotes (really good quotes but garbled sig and
typed text).
If it's the problem, the complete solution needs two steps:
-1) Generate signatures in current $charset. Perhaps appending
"iconv -f iso-8859-1 |" to the $signature pile.
-2) Disable charset auto-sensing when $editor is called from Mutt.
Auto-sensing smartness just confuses things, hiding what may be wrong.
For Mutt, $editor must dumbly read and write in current locale's
charset, period.
Bye! Alain.
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A "Reply-To:" header field pointing to the same email address
as the "From:" is uselessly redundant: A loss of space.