El día Wednesday, October 06, 2010 a las 09:52:22AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler
escribió:
> Well, of course it is. When mutt reads an email message, it reads it
> into it's own local memory, transforms it into a form that is
> convenient to think about (in this case, utf-8), and uses that to
> display to the terminal. Thus, it's pretty obvious why mutt would use
> that same source to write out files for vim. In other words, the file
> is written in utf-8 characters; it is not written in latin1 characters
> and then converted.
You are right, but only half way :-)
In parts it is written in ISO-8859-1
I found the reason. From .muttrc the $attribution was inserted as
El día %d, %n escribió:\n"
but containing an ISO ó and later the UTF-8 á, which let vim convert the
file from ISO to UTF-8, doubling the real UTF-8 bytes; I disabled this
and now it is fine.
> But this is, I think, an irrelevant detail. The real point of the
> matter is that the file is in UTF-8 encoding by the time vim gets it.
>
> >g...@current:~> env | egrep 'LANG|LC_'
> >LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
>
> Presumably, that's a valid LANG on your system. Just for giggles, make
> sure. Run
>
> locale -a | grep en_ES
g...@current:~> locale -a | grep es_ES
es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.ISO8859-15
es_ES.UTF-8
Thanks for following through the problem;
matthias
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