Re: Can one specify a character set 'on demand' for incoming mail?
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:57:50PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> On 21 May 2008 13:59 +0100, by cl@xxxxxxxx (Chris G):
> > I frequently get E-Mail (from France in particular) which doesn't
> > specify its charset. I'm pretty sure it's assuming iso-8859-1. Is
> > there any way I can tell mutt to use a particular character set when
> > viewing an incoming mail 'on the fly' as it were, i.e. when I see the
> > mail has \xxx sequences in it?
>
> Have a look at <edit-type>, bound to Ctrl+E by default I believe.
>
> You can add or change the charset specifier there - for example, if
> the mail has "text/plain", you can change it to
> "text/plain; charset=iso8859-1".
>
Brilliant, exactly what I needed, thank you. I think this calls for a
macro to do it, "; charset=iso8859-1" is just a bit too long and
unmemorable!
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Chris Green