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Re: encoding in replies



On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:08:39PM +0100, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> The problem in short: When I write mails with german umlauts to myself, I get
> them back with the umlauts displayed as questionmarks.

Here's a clue:

> ÄÄÄÄääääÖÖÖÖööööÜÜÜÜüüüüßßßß
> Was lange g?rt wird endlich Wut.

The third word in the second line contains a character which is not
present in the character set used to encode this message, or it
contains one which can not be translated to UTF-8.

I checked the charset of the message, and it was listed as:

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 

What's the value of send_charset?

Whatever the case, you seem to have a charset mismatch somewhere
between your terminal, your editor, and mutt.  Your locale settings
seem fine, which suggests to me that maybe your send_charset does not
include a character set which contains the characters you need... But
I think there are still other possibilities too.

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