* Ambrevar on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 21:43:18 +0200
> [Using Mutt-1.5.21 with FreeBSD and Arch Linux]
>
> Hi there,
>
> I noticed a nasty behaviour I do not understand. It happens if the e-mail
> contains latin characters with acute, like 'é', but no unicode character not
> covered by latin1. The text editor -- Emacs, but I tested with others too --
> will correctly set it to UTF-8.
>
> file /tmp/mutt-...
>
> will confirm this.
>
> When I close the editor, thus swithing back to Mutt, it sees the content as
> iso8859-1. This is on the "Mutt Compose" screen, right before actually sending
> the mail. Of course I can convert it at this very same point with the
> 'edit-type' function. But I do not want to do it manually. It would be nice
> if I
> could send all my mails in UTF-8 automatically.
>
> If I add a unicode character not covered by Latin1 (e.g. '€'), then the e-mail
> is correctly marked as being utf-8.
>
> All my locale variables are set to "en_US.UTF-8". And
>
> :set &charset ?charset
>
> returns 'utf-8'.
>
> So I guess it comes from Mutt that fails at guessing the proper character
> encoding. I do not know how it works internally, but I do not have so much
> time
> right now to crawl in the source code.
>
> To reproduce the issue: write a e-mail with the sole letter 'é' as content.
>
> Note that the e-mail is not screwed up. It gets properly converted from utf-8
> to
> latin1, 'é' goes from a9c3 (utf-8) to e9 (latin1).
>
> Any clue?
man 5 muttrc:
send_charset
Type: string
Default: "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"
A colon-delimited list of character sets for outgoing messages. Mutt will
use the first char- acter set into which the text can be converted
exactly. If your $charset is not "iso-8859-1" and recipients may not
understand "UTF-8", it is advisable to include in the list an appropri-
ate widely used standard character set (such as "iso-8859-2", "koi8-r"
or "iso-2022-jp") either instead of or after "iso-8859-1".
In case the text cannot be converted into one of these exactly, mutt uses
$charset as a fall- back.
I have:
set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:windows-1252:utf-8"
And when I write €, this email will probably be iso-8859-15.
It's all about saving old-fashionedly some bits over the wire.
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