Daniel Bauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately there are two `standards' in Poland -- iso-8859-2 and
> cp-1250, sometimes I also get some mail with charset us-ascii, though
> it contains iso or cp chars.
Mutt is supposed to "recode" the message from the character set that the
originator used, into the character set that your terminal can display.
The question-marks indicate characters that could not be converted,
probably because there is some information missing somewhere.
Presumably, if you had things set up correctly, you could use an xterm
with an iso-8859-2 font, and when Mutt receives a message using cp-1250
character set, it would translate the characters into iso-8859-2 so that
you wouldn't have to launch a new editor or pager with a new font.
Unfortunately the documentation of this alleged process is so sparse
that I have been unable to determine how one goes about setting up this
recoding process. As far as I can tell, it is only understood by the
people that wrote the code.
> What about other people, who gets mail in many languages? Should they
> run mutt with diffrent $LC_ALL to read mail in every language?
Good question.
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