El día Wednesday, October 06, 2010 a las 09:17:48AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler
escribió:
> On Wednesday, October 6 at 03:48 PM, quoth Matthias Apitz:
> > It seems I have opened now the "Pandora's box" :-)
>
> Indeed! But at some point, it'll Just Work (tm).
>
> > What combination of terminal and editor should be used now? When I'm
> > receiving an ISO-8859-1 message with, for example, the Spanish char
> > á (0xe1 in ISO) and I do a reply then:
> >
> > with xterm (ISO-8859-1) and 'vim' the á is correctly presented as
> >
> > > á
> >
> >with urxvt (UTF-8) and 'vim' the á is presented as
> >
> > > á
> >
> >Why is this?
>
> It's because vim isn't *told* what character set the input file will
> be; it has to guess. Mutt is handing it a UTF-8 file (because mutt
> converts mail messages into whatever the local terminal character set
> is before handing it to any other program (such as vim), for obvious
> reasons). In UTF-8, the á character is represented as a two-byte
> character: 0xc3 0xa1. However, your vim is assuming that input files
> are in ISO-8859-1, and both of those bytes are valid ISO-8859-1
> characters (this is the fundamentally impossible problem of
> determining character set from unidentified byte streams). As you
> might imagine, 0xc3 is Â, and 0xa1 is ¡.
...
It is converted *before* it is stored into the temp file for 'vim'; I've
checked this with truss(1) what mutt hands over to vim (see the
^^^^marked bytes):
write(5,"El d\M-ma Wednesday, October 06, 2010 a las 03:18:39PM +0200,
Matthias Apitz escribi\M-s:\n\n> \n> \M-C\M-!\n> \n> -- \n> Matthias
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Apitz\n> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211\n>
e <[email protected]> - w http://www.unixarea.de/\n\n-- \nMatthias
Apitz\nt +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211\ne
<[email protected]> - w http://www.unixarea.de/\n",361) = 361 (0x169)
close(5) = 0 (0x0)
Thanks for your comment any way. Btw: LANG is set to
g...@current:~> env | egrep 'LANG|LC_'
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
matthias
--
Matthias Apitz
t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
e <[email protected]> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
