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On Tuesday, May 5 at 01:32 PM, quoth Christoph Kukulies:
> During searching for a way to pretty print my Emails from mutt I found,
> that all messages (or at least the message under concern)
> are stored from ISO-8859-1 to quoted-printable.
I don't understand... you mean they're *converted* into
quoted-printable from ISO-8859-1?
> I tried various converters, especially "recode" and recode is
> complaing about some ungueltige Eingabe in data. (when I type =FC
> into stdin, recode behaves brave and issues an u-umlaut), so it's
> not the needs getting used to command line syntax of "recode".
I'm pretty sure recode is not what you want.
My *guess* is that you have unset $print_decode, so mutt is passing
raw message data to your $print_command. If you set $print_decode,
mutt should convert all output into $charset as it gets passed to
$print_command.
> My questions are:
>
> \1 What mechanism causes mutt to produce a quoted printable encoded copy
> of the message, when I save the file?
None.
Let me clarify: when you save a copy of a message somewhere, mutt
leaves it AS IS (unless you use something like <decode-save>). So if
the message was encoded with quoted-printable to begin with, it will
stay that way.
> \2 When I view the message in mutt, umlauts are shown as two byte
> characters, e.g. an u-umlaut is represented as \374.
> Would be nice, mutt would do that right away with the correct
> character set. Only when invoking the editor (vi) to
> write a reply, the characters are shown correctly.
Technically, that's not a question. ;)
But if mutt is displaying umlauts as byte-codes (e.g. \374) instead of
as an umlaut or even as a masked unprintable character (displayed as a
question mark), then your charset environment is incorrectly
configured.
Let me guess, you set $charset manually, don't you. (Hint: that's
almost always the wrong thing to do, for lots of reasons.)
Step 1: stop setting $charset
Step 2: set up your LANG environment variable correctly
Possible Step 3: correctly configure your terminal
~Kyle
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