On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:40:27AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> FWIW, When I read your mail, I see "I send \351 (e')..." and then
> "inputs é (\303 \251)..."
>
> In other words, after "inputs" I see a proper 'e' with acute accent.
> However, your mail seems to have been sent with a character set of
> us-ascii... That seems strange to me.
I sent it from another mutt and another machine, not to worry
> > 2) mutt should convert e' double byte é into single byte ??? and
> > then the sending charset of iso-8859-1 would be correct.
>
> This (that is, #2) is the normal and expected behavior, and if this is
> not what you are seeing then it seems probable that either there is
> something wrong with your locale configuration, or the exact version
> of mutt (or maybe iconv) you are using is buggy.
I found the problem. Mutt was doing the right thing, but viewing an é
with a UTF-8 locale caused the print function to convert the character into
double byte, when it was single byte on disk.
I just got confused by that
> BTW, need any help over there at Google? ;-)
I always take resumes :)
Thanks for your help
Marc
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