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Re: locale problem



On 2004-08-10 00:42:42 +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:01:57AM +0000, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> > What should I set mutt's charset to? It's currently set to
> > "iso-8859-1".  I live in Brazil, and receive loads of accented
> > messages.  I checked some messages I received, and it seems to
> > define its charset fine using a "content-type" header.  However,
> > accented characters show as a "?" in the index view, and show as
> > "\341" (for example) on the pager view.  Outgoing messages seem to
> > be working fine (no one complained as far).
> 
> This could be a font problem...

Things like "\341" are produced by Mutt (or some library used by Mutt)
when displaying invalid UTF-8 sequences (that includes ISO-8859-*
characters that have not been converted into UTF-8). This cannot be
a font problem, IMHO.

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