On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> > Juho Rosqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Now, the subject _should_ read:
> > > Mutt and ÅåÄäÖö characters
> > [snip]
> > > I'm really at a loss as to what causes this problem, or how to fix it.
> > > Help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > The problem is that if mail headers (especially to, from and subject)
> > contain non US-Ascii characters (as your email does), then the mail
> > program is supposed to use the mechanism described in RFC2047. Your
> > emailer is not doing this, but is sending the 'raw' Scandinavian
> > characters. As to how to fix it, I am sorry but I cannot be of any
> > help.  
> 
> I do not think this would be the problem, since MUTT does encode them
> (at last my mutt with Czech characters and utf-8 charset). I would try
> some other TUI application like mc or links. Vim handles the input
> directly AFAIK, but these use readline library for it.

I agree that my problem is probably input related. By your reply I
presume that mutt uses readline for input; is this correct?

Midnight Commander displays åäö correctly, but not the corresponding
capital letters ÅÄÖ, which is confusing to say the least. Links works 
after switching to UTF-8 I/O and ISO 8859-1 character set (UTF-8 is not
available?), although some symbols are not displayed, e.g. the euro
currency symbol € is replaced by EUR -- but this is due to the symbol
missing from the charset, I believe.
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