On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:48:33PM -0800, Richard Gananathan wrote: > A while ago I switched to mutt for my email client because I heard good
> > One day I sent an email to a Japanese friend and he told me that he > couldn't read it. I also cannot read Japanese emails in mutt. > > So I have a bit of a problem. Is there a unicode fix for mutt? If so > that would be good but I don't think I'd be that lucky. Even if there > is, I didn't see a pacman package or aur pkgbuild, and I have never > compiled from source before so it might be tough. > > What are some other good email clients that have unicode support. I > haven't gotten too deep into mutt's features so if I pull out now I can > still live. I'd be sold if I could use vi with it. So is the issue that you need to use Japanese with mutt in console or in X? In X, it's quite easy. In console, you might have luck reading it, though I don't know about writing it, using kon. What email client does your Japanese friend use? See http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html You shouldn't need a unicode fix for mutt, you simply have to set your LC_CTYPE before writing the letter. For instance, (assuming you use scim-anthy for input) XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 mlterm -e mutt If your friend is using MS, it's probably ShiftJIS. If he's using Mac OSX it's either Shift JIS, or, in later versions utf-8. (BTW, with the LC_CTYPE I mention above, I'm not sure about upper and lower case, right now, I'm writing from FreeBSD but the link I gave above tells you how to check if your LC_CTYPE should be UTF-8, utf8, utf-8 or whatever. You need an xterm capable of handling it, rxvt-unicode or mlterm. Actually, even with xterm you can use uxterm. UTF-8 in mutt is fairly trivial, and, in an xterminal at least, shouldn't require anything more than making sure you have your locales (also covered in that link, there's an ArchLinux section) and scim-anthy. > > In fact while I'm at it, there isn't a way to use vim in the text entry > boxes for web browsers is there? Am I dreaming too much? Do you mean use vim, or input Japanese in web browsers. The second one is also fairly trivial. You have to make sure you start it with the LC_CTYPE or have QT_IM_MODULE or GTK_IM_MODULE set. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: What is stalking nowadays, like, the third most popular sport among men? Angel: Fourth, after luge _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
