On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:40:44AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > 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?
Well, nither will nano and less. Vim: only sort-of-like But I figure that a smart display filter can solve most of the problems > > > 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 currently use mutt 1.5.6-20040722 from ackports.org and ideed that silly leak and the separate -utf8 package are gone > > > > > 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? putty. Works well from XP. IIRC win98 had some issues. using ascii line-drawing characters helped avoid most of them. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
