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Re: Charset on a win32 machine for german text



 On Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:44:46 AM +0200, Robert Eisig wrote:

> those emails who are still displayed wrong [...] are not using a
> correct and consistent charset

    This does happen, say with evil webmails. Please show us "grep -A1
^Content-Type:" and one or two umlauted words out of the source of a
wrong mail: There may be a magic charset-hook workaround.


> Alain Bench:
>> choose Lucida Console font, then type "chcp 1252", and "mutt -e 'set
>> charset=cp1252'"
> I cannot enter the Euro-¤ in mutt.

    Works for me: I can enter ¤uro at subject prompt, then quote and
enter ¤uro in Notepad, and later Mutt correctly converts them to
Latin-9. You need a CP-1252 editor though: The fabulous edit.com doesn't
seem to cooperate.

    The nice thing with chcp 1252 and Mutt is that you can perfectly
read full Latin-1, and also complete Latin-9, and of course CP-1252.
Probably all you'll ever need. Only UTF-8 gives yet more.


Bye!    Alain.
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