(Alain, I'm Cc'ing you in case you'd like to send some insight in our
direction. :-)
* Kurt Roeckx [Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:09:32 +0200]:
> Hi,
Hey Kurt,
> I'm using a latin1 terminal, but I've set up vim to use utf-8 files by
> default, but fall back to latin1. Vim also shows latin1 on the screen.
> But I can't seem to get mutt and vim to agree on the charset for the
> file being used.
Hm. Mutt assumes that the contents provided by the user editor are in
$charset, which is reasonable since this variable is initialized from
the user's locale automatically.
As far as I know, there is no way to tell Mutt that the files provided
by the editor are in some other encoding. And you really don't want to
change $charset by hand, since then it won't match your terminal
encoding, and will be unable to read the text.
In your scenario, I think the interesting question is why you have:
> In vim: ":set fileencoding" returns:
> fileencoding=utf-8
Did you set it by hand?
> It seems that mutt always considers the encoding of the filename to be
> the same as for the terminal, and that's not really what I want.
Why, if I may ask? Seems like a not-that-useful setup. But hey, if
that's what you really really want, all I can offer you is a macro:
macro compose y "<first-entry><edit-type>\Cutext/plain;
charset=utf-8<enter>n<send-message>"
This basically overrides "y" to "hey, Mutt, my editor gave you utf-8" + "y".
> So, I was reading the documentation, and it seems that the only thing
> that I should consider changing seems to be file_charset. I've tried
> setting that to various things like just "utf-8", or
> "utf-8:iso-8859-1", but it doesn't seem to be changing anything.
I think file charset applies to text attachments, but not to the text
body itself, I think.
HTH,
--
Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- J.K. Galbraith
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
