For some reason although when I send emails containing certain umlauted characters everything looks fine to me (i.e., in my editor), the recipient sometimes (or possibly always, I only know because one person mentioned it) doesn't see those characters correctly. They report that in emails containing umlauted character (upper or lower case), the characters appear to be replaced by spaces.
If I send *myself* an email containing upper case an umlauted A, O, or U then when I receive it, I see garbage (a patterned "box" followed by something like "~D") in mutt where the character should be, but if I look at the email via webmail it looks fine. Lower case umlauted characters look fine in all cases, so this is a little different to others' experience when reading my emails. If I open the mailbox in my editor, the affected characters are shown as, for example: \304 \344 (i.e. a backslash followed by a number - some character encoding?) I notice that the Content-Type header contains: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Should/could that be correct? I have the following environment variables set: $ env | grep -E "(LANG|LC_)" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 and within mutt I can see that the charset variable is set to UTF-8 - ':set &charset ?charset' displays 'charset="utf-8"'. similarly, 'send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-2:utf-8"' FWIW - $ mutt -v Mutt 1.4.2.2i (2006-07-14) Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. [...] System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) (i686) [using ncurses 5.5] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID -USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS +LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER (i.e. it is the official Cygwin package; no, I don't know why that hasn't been upgraded to the official stable version since 2007)
