German Umlaute in Subject or other Header-Lines
Hello List! I've got a question concerning German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) in headers of a mail. Mutt is able to show them in a correct way, if I receive any mail containing correctly encoded Umlaute in the header. It is also able to correctly encode such characters if i use them by editing the headers in my preferred editor (i.e. vi) having the $edit_headers variable set. But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and would like to be able to enter characters like ä, ö or ü in the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail. But on my system hitting an ä does not cause any action, hitting ü returns a _ and so on. Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so... Can anybody help? My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to de_DE and the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode. Greetings Christoph -- Christoph Maurer - Jülicher Str. 80 - D - 52070 Aachen - Tux# 194235 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.christophmaurer.de On my Homepage: SuSE 7.0 on an Acer Travelmate 508 T Notebook
Re: German Umlaute in Subject or other Header-Lines
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Maurer wrote: Hello List! I've got a question concerning German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) in headers of a mail. Mutt is able to show them in a correct way, if I receive any mail containing correctly encoded Umlaute in the header. It is also able to correctly encode such characters if i use them by editing the headers in my preferred editor (i.e. vi) having the $edit_headers variable set. But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and would like to be able to enter characters like ä, ö or ü in the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail. But on my system hitting an ä does not cause any action, hitting ü returns a _ and so on. Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so... Can anybody help? My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to de_DE and the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode. './configure --enable-locale-fix' helped me to display raw 8bit on the terminal. Where can I find any doc on LANG variable? If de_DE is for German, what code is for Korean? -- William Park (¹ÚÈñÀ©), Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 8 CPU cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, vim, mutt
Re: German Umlaute in Subject or other Header-Lines
Am Die, 15 Mai 2001, schrieb William Park: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Maurer wrote: Hello List! I've got a question concerning German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) in headers of a mail. Mutt is able to show them in a correct way, if I receive any mail containing correctly encoded Umlaute in the header. It is also able to correctly encode such characters if i use them by editing the headers in my preferred editor (i.e. vi) having the $edit_headers variable set. But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and would like to be able to enter characters like ä, ö or ü in the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail. But on my system hitting an ä does not cause any action, hitting ü returns a _ and so on. Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so... Can anybody help? My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to de_DE and the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode. './configure --enable-locale-fix' helped me to display raw 8bit on the terminal. Where can I find any doc on LANG variable? If de_DE is for German, what code is for Korean? This is an configure-option of mutt, or of ncurses? To get a list of all available locales, simply write locale -a, perhaps you will want to have a look at man locale, too. Gruß Christoph -- Christoph Maurer - Jülicher Str. 80 - D - 52070 Aachen - Tux# 194235 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.christophmaurer.de On my Homepage: SuSE 7.0 on an Acer Travelmate 508 T Notebook
Re: German Umlaute in Subject or other Header-Lines
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:18:52PM +0200, Christoph Maurer wrote: But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and would like to be able to enter characters like ä, ö or ü in the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail. But on my system hitting an ä does not cause any action, hitting ü returns a _ and so on. Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so... Can anybody help? My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to de_DE and the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode. './configure --enable-locale-fix' helped me to display raw 8bit on the terminal. Where can I find any doc on LANG variable? If de_DE is for German, what code is for Korean? This is an configure-option of mutt, or of ncurses? When you compile Mutt ;-). I've tried 'LANG=ko', 'korean', 'ko_KR', 'korean.eur'. Nothing worked, all I could see was '?'. What I needed was for Mutt to spit out raw 8bit characters to Xterm; and, '--enable-locale-fix' did it. Sorry, after re-reading your post, I'm at where you are now. I can see 8bit characters in the header and message, whether encoded or raw. But, even though the 8bit characters don't display properly when I type at the bottom of terminal, they get encoded properly. Because, I can see them after I receive the mail. So, I can offer no help. To get a list of all available locales, simply write locale -a, perhaps you will want to have a look at man locale, too. Gruß Christoph -- William Park (¹ÚÈñÀ©), Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 8 CPU cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, vim, mutt
Re: German Umlaute in Subject or other Header-Lines
Hello William! On Tue, 15 May 2001, William Park wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Christoph Maurer wrote: I've got a question concerning German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) in headers of a mail. Mutt is able to show them in a correct way, if I receive any mail containing correctly encoded Umlaute in the header. It is also able to correctly encode such characters if i use them by editing the headers in my preferred editor (i.e. vi) having the $edit_headers variable set. But, in normal operation, I'd prefer to have $edit_headers unset and would like to be able to enter characters like ä, ö or ü in the mutt dialog for entering recipients and subjects of a new mail. But on my system hitting an ä does not cause any action, hitting ü returns a _ and so on. Seems to be a problem with ncurses or so... Can anybody help? My machine runs SuSE 7.1, the $LANG variable is set to de_DE and the problems occurs under X as well as in text mode. './configure --enable-locale-fix' helped me to display raw 8bit on the terminal. You doesn't do that. Use the right locale-setting in your Shell or System-Environment. For the german language you can use in your $HOME/.bashrc for example: export LC_CTYPE=de_DE to get the german umlauts in a correct way. But the question was a little bit different. German umlauts in Mail-Headers are sometimes a bit broken because a few Mail-Transport-Agents in the whole mailing system aren't 8-Bit compatible. And that's the reason that the 8-Bit-Characters aren't shown in that way which Christoph was asking for. Where can I find any doc on LANG variable? In your locale catalog. Have a look at /usr/share/locale/locale.alias. If de_DE is for German, what code is for Korean? Here I don't use that locale on my box. Maybe you will get it with a export LC_CTYPE=ko in your ~/.bashrc and a setting of set charset=EUC-KR in your $HOME/.muttrc. bye - Wilhelm -- ._. Wilhelm Wienemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _,\ | (_./ Debian GNU/Linux Version 2.2 Potato \, To learn more visit = http://www.debian.org/
