I use Mutt in a system that is running Debian Squeeze. I have
installed the system recently and it should have no legacy
cruft from Lenny or whatever. I did this new install because
I was having serious problems with charsets and utf8. Almost
all such are gone from this. But a problem with Mutt remains.
In the pager, I see backslash strings instead of quotes and
apostorphies in incoming emails. The offending emails (one of
them, at least) are charset="iso-8859-1".
locales -a indicates that this charset is loaded on the system
I have looked at the MuttFaq/Charset web page.
1) The short answer does not work. My copy of Mutt informs me that
LC_TYPE is not a recognized variable name.
2) I have verified that my system settings conform to the Long Answer
except that I have replace 'de_DE' with 'en_US'. The verify check
gives the correct indication that utf-8 is detected. locale -a gives
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
But I still see lines like
African-American experience, ones who understand \223the slave thing,\224 as a
top
^^^^ ^^^^
(Not sure this will appear correctly on your computer. Your computer may
actually catch the backslash sequences and display the intended quotes.
On my computer there are TWO backslashes, each followed by three digits.)
I incline toward the belief that my problem is rooted in Squeeze, not Mutt.
But there may be some suggestions that you can make that will firm up
evidence for some sort of bug report to somebody. The Mutt that I use is
from a Debian repository, not compiled by me, and downloaded with a very
ordinary sources.list.
Has anyone here seen this? Could the problem be that 'en_US.iso88591'
should be 'en_US.iso88591-1'? The email in the expample contains
'charset="iso-8859-1"'. Suggestions for a fix/work around?
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Paul E Condon
pecon...@mesanetworks.net
