severity 566881 wishlist retitle 566881 Please add note to update charset when going utf-8 thanks
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Helge Kreutzmann 2010-01-25 <20100125185848.ga13...@ipxxxxxx>
> > If I use mutt in my default locale, mutts messages are partial broken
> > (umlauts are replaced by ? for example, some characters seem missing
> > completely) and some message are not shown (I have to guess them).
> [...]
> > Please ask me which further information I should provide. I use mutt
> > extensively on the console. This happens both in local VTs as well as
> > in those over ssh.
> [...]
> > Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
> > LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
>
> Hi Helge,
>
> this looks broken. @euro are the latin9 (iso-8859-15) variants, while
> UTF-8 is unicode. Please make sure you set a coherent locale
> environment (and of course your terminal has to match these).
Coherent locale ... yes, though I did not expect it within mutt. I
used this config file for well, 10 years or so (updated when need
arose), but now I found that by changing:
set charset="iso-8859-1"
into
set charset="utf-8"
Everything is displayed fine.
Maybe you could add a note for people upgrading from non-UTF-8 locales
to UTF-8 locales?
Thanks
Greetings
Helge
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