On 04.10.10 11:35:03, Matthias Apitz wrote: > At the moment I still have set the xterm for mutt to ISO-8859-1, i.e. > receiving and sending messages in ISO. More and more I receive email now > in UTF-8 and to read them I open another terminal 'urxvt' with the LANG > set to es_ES.UTF-8 to read such message... > > I'm unsure if I should completely switch to UTF-8 already, maybe this > would cause big disaster in the receiving sites, mailing lists etc. What > is the opinion about of other mutt users and what is the tendenz we > should follow?
Correctly configured, mutt will always use the 'smallest' encoding possible to encode a given message. That is, it can use ascii if the text is pure ascii, change to latin1 if one has german umlauts and change to utf-8 or something else when things are getting more fancy. Check the send_charset option. That said, my systems run UTF-8 only since 6 years now and I didn't have a problem with any mailinglist, private mail etc. in that time. Andreas -- Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
