Re: Subject charset issue
Hello,
On Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 15:49:35 -0400, dv1445@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
This means that your terminal does UTF-8, but $charset doesn't. You
can pick nearly any charset. But Terminal.app, current locale, and
Mutt's $charset have to agree.
> export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 [...] typing :set &charset ?charset. Mutt
> revealed that charset="US-ASCII".
Something interferes, perhaps:
- Env vars LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL overrule LANG: Unset them.
- MacOS-X wants a specific spelling of locales: Try "en_US.ISO8859-1".
- This locale is not installed: Install it, generate it, or pick one
already available in "locale -a".
At each step, restart Mutt and check the ":set &charset ?charset"
until it shows "iso-8859-1". If nothing works, please report back, and
say us the version of MacOS-X.
Bye! Alain.
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