Re: Problems with mutt and utf-8, can't talk to itself even!
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:10:29PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> 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......
>
Yes, that's it, *everything* was actually alright except my editor
wasn't entering UTF-8 pounds signs (etc.). The rest of the system
just did its best to work around the resulting confusion.
--
Chris Green