Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Thu, 21 Oct:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:45:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi Ira,
> > I (thought) having sent this letter from work, a couple of days ago.
> > Apparently it did not get out. So I send it again.
> > 
> > Hi Ira,
> > They say that "better late than never"... It turns out that the way
> > Hebrew text appears in mutt is determined by its default pager.
> 
> What's wrong with mutt's built-in pager?

does it swap RTL text correctly when not in UTF-8?
does it display both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-8 correctly?

> bidiv is slightly more optimized for mail than fribidi, but only works
> for ISO-8859-8 output, right?

well, yeah, but if everyone would finally switch to UTF-8, it will not
be needed.

> I write this from a debian-woody system. You should generally use there
> mutt-utf8 rather than mutt if you want proper multi-byte support. But
> the version of mutt on Woody leaks file-descriptors when you use
> display_filter . I eventually went on to use mutt from backports.org .

I use the one in sarge, there is only mutt and no mutt-utf8. I hope I
can assume they merged the two well, because I have seen no leaks yet.

> 
> I run it from a screen session. I invoke screen with screen -U and make
> sure that the environment is set to a UTF-8 locale and run from a UTF-8
> terminal.

what do I do when I connect from a window machine to my server? is there
a way to make putty display all this correctly?


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Ira Abramov
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