Re: character encoding
Hello Christoph,
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 5:12:34 PM +0200,
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> For one I'm writing short mails using the unix /bin/mail program and
> since the german umlauts and sz are displayed in my term (xterm)
> ae,oe,ue,Ae,Oe,Ue, sz by the codes 228,246,252,196,214,220,223
> respectively
Don't use /bin/mail to send umlauts: It is broken. Also don't use
/bin/mail to send replies: It is broken. /bin/mail breaks MIME and
references. You can still use /bin/mail to send US-Ascii new mails. ;-)
> Recipients of my mail text may then be unable to read my Umlauts etc.
Exactly.
> Now my question: How can this be solved it mutt?
Set correctly your system locale, probably exporting LANG=de_DE,
type your umlauts in $editor, and Mutt should do the right thing
automagically. Feel free to validate your settings by replying here,
quoting and inserting your own äëïöü.
Bye! Alain.
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