introduction / first question and special characters
Hello mutt-users!
A short introduction of myself:
I'm Daniel Hertrich from Germany, mutt newbie for one month now, running a
self-compiled mutt 1.5.9i on my Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 palmtop, together with
fetchmail, procmail and msmtp (with its queueing scripts for offline mail
composing). Runs very well.
My first question which I could not find an answer in the mutt documentation
for:
If I start with mutt -y, I get the list of "mailboxes" defined in .muttrc. I
then press enter to look into a mailbox.
But how can I get back to that list of mailboxes from within mutt?
And:
I could need some help in setting mutt up the right way so it displays
german special characters (Umlauts etc) correctly.
I have tried so many things (locale tweaking, different charset settings)
but all I get is either a '?' for an Umlaut or an octal code (\xxx).
I'm not sure the problem is within mutt, as I tried almost everything I
found on the web without success (and that's an often discussed issue).
Maybe the reason is incompatibility of my console (qKonsole, a special
QTopia-based console program for the Zaurus). But OTOH in vi and other
console programs Umlauts are shown correctly, so they are there. <g>
I'm stuck with this one. The best solution so far is letting mutt display a
'?' by setting 'set charset="us-ascii"'. But in SOME emails these octal
codes appear again. Strange.
Anyone having experiences with such narrow-minded <g> consoles which do not
accept these special characters in a normal way?
Thank you
daniel
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Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Hertrich
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http://www.daniel-hertrich.de
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