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Re: how to display 8bit chars in mutt?



* On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 Christoph P. Kukulies (kuku@xxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> When I view Emails that contain eightbit characters coded in 
> iso-8859-1, e.g. the german u-umlaut like in  'für', it is displayed 
> in the mutt viewer (the part of mutt that is used to display the Email
> when you open it) as  'f\374r'.

The »viewer« is called pager.

> How can I make mutt display it with the real 8bit character so my terminal
> (putty term - TERM=ansi) displays it correctly?

Set proper locales. Use TERM=xterm.

HTH,

Michael
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