retitle 323385 .muttrc setting latin1 in a UTF-8 terminal breaks.
severity 323385 normal
thanks
Hello,

Sorry for the disturbance, i was setting charset to latin1 in my muttrc, which
was causing all those troubles.

Still, let me describe the exact situation, and you will be able to decide
wheter to close the bug report or not, but i will add the reason of the
problem for completeness.

ssh is not involved, i tried and reproduce this locally.

i have set my whole system to fr_FR.UTF-8. i had the following in my muttrc :

charset-hook us-ascii iso-8859-1# use latin1 for incorrectly encoded emails
set charset="iso-8859-1"        # which charset the terminal uses
set send_charset="iso-8859-1"   # send emails with latin1 chars

Which i believe was wrong in this case, don't remember why i added it, but i
just recently migrated to UTF-8.

when someone send me an email with a latin1 terminal, like :

  From: Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Then i was obviously not seeing the utf-8 chars, which is understandable, but
furthermore, mutt was truncating the From field after the first J, when doing
a reply or something.

I feel that this is a bug still, even if my encoding settings where fubar,
mutt should be copying the line verbatim instead of truncating it.

Ok, thanks for your resolution, don't know why i didn't receive your last
email, but doing the :set ?charset was the one which hinted me on the problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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