Hello Johannes!
On Mon, 07 May 2001, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:29:36PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> > I have a question about character sets. Currently I have my
> > locale set to US IS0-8859-1. Should I edit this to use other
> > locales, and if so, what locales should I use?
> >
> > The problem I am experiencing is when I am using mutt to read email,
> > and I receive a mail from Thomas Kohler (I think) ...
His correct Name is Thomas Köhler (with german umlaut for 'o')
and if the setting of options in your ~/.muttrc and/or for your
'locale' are not prepared to show it in the right form than thats
the problem for...
> > ...it shows up as
> > From: Thomas K\366hler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> >
> > Same thing happens in Netscape on web pages.
>
> I've
>
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE
>
> and I CAN display / edit mails correctly.
>
> The only problem is that german Umlauts are rendered
> incorrectly in the /index/ even if the corresponding
> message has
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> and I get something like this in the index:
>
> 14 r + Mar 30 =?iso-8859-1?Q? ( 20) 1000 Re: hi
>
> It would be great, if anyone could help me with this.
Here I'm using the options
set charset="iso-8859-1"
set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"
set locale="de_DE"
in my $HOME/.muttrc and all it will be shown as I want, also
in the index.
bye - Wilhelm
--
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to
make them all yourself."
Marianne Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> solarisonintel 20 Feb 2001
