On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: > > By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never > noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character > and moved on. > > I have: >> >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> LC_COLLATE=C >> >> as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8... >> > > And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8? > > And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I > didn't have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that. I just joined the SunHelp rescue list a few weeks ago, and I've seen several places where "curly quotes" get replaced by the letter b plus another character I can't remember off the top of my head. This seems to be a problem with their list rather than with mutt. I have to say, though, that curly quotes are a huge problem encodingwise anyway. (It's always nice to paste in some source code where the nice clean ASCII quotes have been converted into matching pairs of curly quotes!) -- Eric Christopherson