Re: Subject charset issue (was: merging/linking tagged messages into
Thus spake Alexander Dahl [08/29/07 @ 10.36.07 +0200]:
> Hi folks,
>
> I know, I'm a little off-topic, but I have a question about a charset issue:
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:39:54PM -0400, Crist??bal M. Palmer wrote:
> ^^
> > Crist?bal Palmer
> ^
>
> I have a clean mutt 1.5.16 running on a linux with locale "de_DE@euro" which
> is in fact iso8859-15. I connect with PuTTY configured to the same locale.
> The above quoted message has charset utf8 both in Subject and message body.
> Mutt displays message body correctly but Subject is not correctly decoded as
> you can see above.
>
> Did I miss some in my configuration (I can't imagine), is this a bug in
> mutt I should report or is it a wrong coded mail?
This seems like a good time for me to jump in ... for me, the "from" line is
rendered correctly but the signature is not.
But the point of my post is this: the correctly-shown "from" is the very first
time, ever, in my history with mutt that an accented character has been
displayed. Normally, I get either a single question-mark or a double one. I
have tried setting my terminal app to UTF-8, ASCII, MacRoman, etc., but none of
that makes it appear correctly. I looked online at the wiki/faq/charset, and
as it instructed I looked at $LANG. I found that echo $LANG returned nothing.
(I'm on MacOSX 10.4, using Terminal.app). So I followed the wiki and did this:
export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1. Still no dice, although the accented 'o' in
'Cristobal' stopped being rendered correctly, and now looks like this:
Crist\xxx\xxxbal, where the x's are digits.
Still following the wiki, I tried checking to see if mutt picked up on the fact
that I changed $LANG, by typing :set &charset ?charset. Mutt revealed that
charset="US-ASCII". Meanwhile, my terminal application (not bash) is still on
UTF-8.
For that matter, terminal-vim never displays accented characters correctly,
either, whether it's called by mutt or not. But I don't think vim is the
culprit, because mutt displays them wrongly in the index view and when reading
messages.
What do I do? Thanks much,
-G