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.

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