Re: Subject �üîå� charset issue
Thus spake Alain Bench [09/02/07 @ 11.03.22 +0200]:
>
> > I made all three agree on en_US.UTF-8, and the result was terrible.
> > Most accented chars still were garbled.
>
> Strange: I've seen reports about this very setting working OK on
> MacOS-X. The shell command "locale charmap" prints something? And what
> for the usual ":set &charset ?charset" (normally the first "UTF-8", the
> later "utf-8").
"locale charmap" yields "unknown keyword charmap". I seem to have partially
sovled the UTF-8 problem. It turns out that the problem was in my muttrc,
which wants to see "set charset=UTF-8" instead of "=en_US.UTF-8", while the
latter is what $LANG wants to see.
I say "partially solved", because there are still some weird things. FIrst,
even though I send test mails to myself in the UTF-8 mode, I see that my
subject line in the header is encoded in ISO-8859-1. (I see this by pressing
'h'; otherwise it looks beautiful). Second, when I save such a message to
disk, it ends up being in Latin1, even though Terminal.app, $LANG, and muttrc
are all UTF-8. Third, while Terminal.app displays things correctly, xterm (via
Apple's X11) does not render correctly under UTF-8. I hypothesize that I have
to do something to xterm to force it to work under UTF-8, but even after
googling I don't know what that is (I compiled it in). However, xterm works
just fine with ISO-8859-1.
I'm also wondering if part of the weirdness is because I should be doing
something to my vimrc to make vim write the file in the right encoding.
> However, we can't be sure if it's its fault, or effect of some
> charset mix in your config. Could you please send me a test mail, in
> UTF-8 setup, with Cristóbal's accent both in subject and in body?
Ångström. SØren. Cristóbal. Æneid. Straße. Œdipus.
While I want to be able to view accented chars myself, I also don't want to
send people emails in which they're garbled, or in an encoding that isn't
common, etc. Is it better to do Latin 1 or UTF-8?
Thanks so much.
-G