On 09.02.16 15:19, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote: > 2016-02-09 14:48 GMT+03:00 Erik Christiansen <[email protected]>: > > Thank you for the hints, Tony, but nothing tried so far is making any > > difference. Vim still won't display Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian. > > > > But is this a clue? My immediate prior post, containing åæø, came back > > from the list server with those three characters now displaying in vim > > as -C3-A5-C3-A6-C3-B8, despite the header: "X-NotAscii: charset=utf-8". > > (Again, s/-/==/g) In vim, encoding, fileencoding, and termencoding are > > all utf-8. > > > > > > Is our list server not sending utf-8, despite the header claim? > > It is sending a proper UTF-8. You must use a client which correctly > decodes the message: you should see those equals signs if > Content-Transfer-Encoding is [quoted-printable][1], but message body > was not decoded.
OK, so after a post with e.g. Cyrillic characters is correctly displayed by mutt in a utf-8_capable xterm, these high valued 8-bit characters become unreadable when the post is opened in vim for composing a reply, because the MUA only decodes for display. It does not alter the received email. ... > See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email. > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable Thank you for your advice and the links. Both have crystallised the problem. I apparently now need to either have postfix or procmail invoke a quoted-printable to utf-8 decoder on all incoming emails, or have mutt invoke the same when passing the quoted text to vim for composing a reply. Erik -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
