Hi Ahmed, Thanks for your reply.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:54:35PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > I use elinks as email viewer in mutt too, and my consoles are utf-8, > and I got not problem. > > I don't use the -codepage option in the mailcap, yet there is a > setting in elinks Option manager: Document->Dump output->Codepage, I > set that to "System". It's set to "System" in my case as well. > To test that out, try saving a german HTML file on your disk (say > /tmp/test.html). > > Then run: elinks -dump -force-html /tmp/test.html, and see if it gets > displayed properly. Your suggestion helped me to narrow down the problem a bit. It turns out that the html mails that elinks doesn't dump properly are not encoded in utf-8, and when mutt pipes the body to elinks, it doesn't change the encoding. So elinks is getting a (e.g.) iso-8859-1 encoded text that it tries to treat as utf-8 (because the message body doesn't specify its iso-8859-1 encoding). When I save the message body to disk and change its encoding to utf-8 (I did that through Emacs), elinks can dump it correctly. So I guess I need to figure out how to make sure mutt reencodes the message body to utf-8, unless of course if there's some way to get elinks guess the encoding from the file's contents, rather than assume its utf-8. BTW, I notice your name's in Arabic (although in my case the characters are displayed backward and unconnected.) Do you use mutt to read/write mail in Arabic? If so, may I ask which terminal emulator you use, and which editor? I've tried a couple of times to get mutt to handle Arabic mail properly, but never got it right... Thanks, Joost -- Joost Kremers, PhD University of Frankfurt Institute for Cognitive Linguistics Grüneburgplatz 1 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
