Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:54:15PM +0100, Peter Münster wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Chris G wrote:
>
> > However I can't seem to get mutt set up correctly, if I enter symbols
> > like GB pound signs or accented characters in an E-Mail then when I
> > view the E-Mail using mutt I see reverse video ? instead of the
> > correct characters.
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> Does the terminal use a font for utf8-encoding?
> You can test it like this: put a pound sign into a file and be sure, that
> this file is utf-8 encoded. Then try "cat file" in the terminal.
>
> To get the right font in my xterm, I have the following line in my
> .Xdefaults:
> xterm*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-*--20-*-iso10646-1
>
Ah, you may have lead me in the right direction here. It's not that
the terminal is wrong but I *suspect* my editor may not be doing what
I think it is. I need to investigate further......
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Chris Green