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Re: Character set problems



Hi,

* Michael Kjorling [04-10-11 00:32:37 +0200] wrote:

> charset="iso-8859-15"
> send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"

> That doesn't look quite right. I am not too much into charset
> configurations, but wouldn't us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15 be more
> reasonable given the "charset" value above? (Which I set explicitly in
> my .muttrc.) Remember that 8859-1 and 8859-15 are similar, but not
> identical.

They're mostly identical; the only difference (I'm aware of/which is
relevant to me) is that in -1 there's the international currency sign
while in -15 there's the € at the very same position. In case you want
-15, just set send_charset to:

| send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-15:utf-8"

The utf-8 is necessary in case mutt finds characters in your mail which
cannot be expressed in -15 (so that utf-8 is the fallback enabling mutt
to cleanly transfer nearly anything). I don't think your settings make
much sence because technically there's no distinction between -1 and
-15; a few characters just look different.

> In the meantime, any other suggestions are very much welcome.

[...]

> LC_CTYPE by the way is `sv_SE', which I believe is correct for
> Swedish/Sweden.

Then it's likely a problem with the interaction between mutt and your
editor.

  bye, Rocco
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:wq!