Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:20:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little
>> arrows in mutt's index.
>
> Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly,
> depending on how mutt is started. I think the best test is to use "!" to
> run "locale" from within mutt. Does that show all settings are correct?
You can also add
set charset="utf8"
to ~/.muttrc to force utf8 encoding, though you may also need a utf8
xterm/console font.
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