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Re: mutt sends in utf-8 while charset=iso8859-7



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Wed, Dec 07, 2005 (16:18 EET)
Dimitris Mandalidis <mandas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hello all,
> After switching for Slackware to Gentoo I also switched to mutt-1.5.11
> (from mutt-1.4.2.1) and I 'm experiencing the following problem.
> Mutt sends e-mails in utf-8 while it keeps Content-Type header's charset to
> iso-8859-7. The desired behaviour for me would be mutt to send all greek
> e-mails in iso-8859-7, this problem also occurs in 1.4.2.1 and 1.5.11-r1.
> In .muttrc I have send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-7" and
> allow_8bit, charset should be (and it is) guessed by my LC_CTYPE which is
> "el_GR.ISO-8859-7". Note that the same configuration file was used when I
> 've Slackware running and everything was working OK. So, does anybody has
> any idea how can I send iso-8859-7 mails properly? Note also that vim which
> I use to compose e-mails creates iso-8859-7 text, and every
> 88597-related aspect of my system works pretty fine.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> D.
> <...>
> 
> $ locale
> 
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE=el_GR.ISO-8859-7

 I believe, the correct locale is 'el_GR.ISO8859-7' (one dash, not two).
My muttrc has:
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set allow_8bit                  
set send_charset="US-ASCII:ISO-8859-1:ISO-8859-7:UTF-8"
set charset="iso-8859-7"
set locale="el_GR"
-----

and everything works ok.

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