Hi List, I recently switched my system (Slackware 12.1) over to utf-8,[1] and essentially the only problem I'm running into is viewing html mail with mutt. In order to deal with html mail, I used to have the following line in my .mailcap:
text/html; links -dump -codepage iso-8859-15 -html-numbered-links 1 -force-html %s; copiousoutput and set the appropriate options in .muttrc. Since links doesn't (appear to) understand utf-8 (I changed the -codepage option to no effect), I was hoping to be able to use elinks to convert html mail to text. Unfortunately it doesn't work properly. I get quite a bit of German email, containing characters like ä, ö, ü and ß (Umlaut-a, o and u, and sharp s). When elinks dumps an html mail, these are all displayed as question marks in a diamond: � (unicode 0xFFFD). In non-html mail, those characters are displayed fine, which suggests to me that neither mutt nor Xfce's Terminal which I use to runn mutt have a problem. I must add that I normally run mutt in a screen session, but the same problem occurs when I run it without screen, directly in Terminal. The .mailcap entry I use for elinks is this: text/html; elinks -dump 1 -dump-charset utf-8 -force-html %s; copiousoutput I've also tried without the -dump-charset option, but got the same effect. Does anyone have an idea as to what I might be doing wrong, or how I can figure out what's going wrong? TIA Joost Footnotes: [1] That is, I changed the system-wide locale setting in /etc/profile.d/lang.[c]sh. LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8. -- Joost Kremers, PhD University of Frankfurt Institute for Cognitive Linguistics Grüneburgplatz 1 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
