Re: How does mutt choose charset encoding when sending messages?
Hello Stephan,
On Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 14:47:53 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> you can't compose correct iso-8859-1 text in "normal" GB2312 locale
You're more than 3/4 right. But some rare Latin-1 characters do
exist in GB2312. IINM 19 of the 96 special Latin-1 chars are so usable.
That's not really sufficient, but permits Swedish composition in some
–very limited– way. OP said ä (a umlaut). Well no: Other umlauts do
exist, but this one seems to lack.
> IIRC you need an UTF-8 environment (at least for mutt and editor).
> Then you can input every encoding form
That sure is better. Or using 2 terminals: One GB2312, the other
Latin-1, each with it's own locale.
Bye! Alain.
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