Re: meta offtopic: UTF-8/vim/mutt/mrxvt

2007-04-13 Thread Dimitar
Hi,
you can look at this manual here:
http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset

I think it is your terminal or your locale settings.
It didn't work for me with normal xterm so I had to use uxterm.
You can try if it works for you too.
Secondly, some email clients don't set the charset correctly.
Mutt has to guess it, so may be you have to set:

set config_charset=utf-8

in your .muttrc
But read the wiki and the manual it is explained more detailed there.

Some text for testing:

Jede Frau möchte lieber schön als klug sein, weil es so viele dumme
Männer gibt und so wenig blinde. 
Françoise Rosay, französische Schauspielerin

and translated in Cyrillic:

Всяка жена иска по-добре да е красива отколкото умна, защтото има
толкова много глупави мъже и толкова малко слепи.

The encoding of this email has to be utf-8
I hope this helps,
Dimitar





* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070413 07:10]:
 Hi,
 
  sorry for this meta offtopic question...but I need informations about
  some internals of vim...
 
  I am using mutt to compose and read mail. The editor for this is vim
  (surprised? :) Mutt/Vim are running on/in/at/on top off/with (or what
  else the correct preposition is... X-) mrxvt. And all this is running
  on a Linux 2.6.20.6 Gentoo Linux.
 
  Now: When I am receiving mail containing german umlauts, they will be
  displayed as \number inside mutt.  Inside vim these mails are
  displayed correctly when cited -- most of the times. But in some
  cases the umlauts also get corrupted.
 
  Entering umlauts in vim is also no problem.
 
  Entering umlauts on the commandlind (zsh/mrxvt) also displayed them
  correctly. Filenames containing umlauts are displayed...hrmmm...
  encrypted but will be correctly expanded (TAB) when using the zsh
  completion system.
 
  These mix of it works and it does not work confuses me.  Would
  vim be able to display german umlauts correctly if the system
  completly ignores/does not know of  UTF-8 ?
 
  What is the trick I am missing to display german umlauts correctly
  with mutt? There are recipes out there in the internet which
  discribes the _complete_ change from ASCII to UTF-8 for mutt. But
  these recipes describes more or less the change either on base of a
  totally UTF-8 aware system (which seems not applicable in my case) or
  the a complete recompilation of the whole system as a migration 
  from ASCII to UTF-8 ... which seems not to be needed in my case.
 
  The basic question is for me: How can vim display german umlauts
  correctly if the world outside of vim seems not to be completly
  UTF-8 aware? What do I need to change in the chain ?
 
  Thank you very much for your help in advance!
  Keep editing!
  mcc
 
 
 
 
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meta offtopic: UTF-8/vim/mutt/mrxvt

2007-04-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi,

 sorry for this meta offtopic question...but I need informations about
 some internals of vim...

 I am using mutt to compose and read mail. The editor for this is vim
 (surprised? :) Mutt/Vim are running on/in/at/on top off/with (or what
 else the correct preposition is... X-) mrxvt. And all this is running
 on a Linux 2.6.20.6 Gentoo Linux.

 Now: When I am receiving mail containing german umlauts, they will be
 displayed as \number inside mutt.  Inside vim these mails are
 displayed correctly when cited -- most of the times. But in some
 cases the umlauts also get corrupted.

 Entering umlauts in vim is also no problem.

 Entering umlauts on the commandlind (zsh/mrxvt) also displayed them
 correctly. Filenames containing umlauts are displayed...hrmmm...
 encrypted but will be correctly expanded (TAB) when using the zsh
 completion system.

 These mix of it works and it does not work confuses me.  Would
 vim be able to display german umlauts correctly if the system
 completly ignores/does not know of  UTF-8 ?

 What is the trick I am missing to display german umlauts correctly
 with mutt? There are recipes out there in the internet which
 discribes the _complete_ change from ASCII to UTF-8 for mutt. But
 these recipes describes more or less the change either on base of a
 totally UTF-8 aware system (which seems not applicable in my case) or
 the a complete recompilation of the whole system as a migration 
 from ASCII to UTF-8 ... which seems not to be needed in my case.

 The basic question is for me: How can vim display german umlauts
 correctly if the world outside of vim seems not to be completly
 UTF-8 aware? What do I need to change in the chain ?

 Thank you very much for your help in advance!
 Keep editing!
 mcc




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