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Re: Weired chars when replaying. utf-8?



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Sören Edzen wrote:

> Hi!
> I use Mutt 1.5.6i with Vim 6.3 as editor. I reasently upgraded to
> SuSE 9.1. SuSE is now all utf-8. The problem I'm refering to below
> didn't occur befor I upgraded.
> Now to my problem. When I replay to a letter and include the
> contents of the e-mail I'm replaying to, specific swedish chars
> appear as a two-letter combinaion that I belive is the utf-8
> representation of the same chars from latin1 (iso-8859-1).
> I'll give you an example: the swedish char 'ö' (that's an o with two
> spots above in case it doesn't show) is replaced with 'ö'. But when
> I edit an e-mail the same swedih char is replaced with '=F6'.
> I have an idea that it is a difference in charsets between mutt and
> vim. I have no problem otherwise with vim so my two cents is that it
> in some way has to do with mutt.
> Is ther anyone who has a clue as how to solve it?

What's the terminal emulator?  If it's xterm, the last related patch
for input in a UTF-8 environment would be #183 (but I don't know offhand
which version SuSE put in their 9.1).

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