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Re: Characters shown as ? in mutt



On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote:
> | Hi J?rgen,
> | 	I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as
> | "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where
> | it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=".
> 
> I don't know where to set the charset for mutt's internal pager or for
> emacs because I use less as the pager and vim as the editor.  To
> correct the display of upper-ASCII characters in less (and get rid of
> the "binary file" warning) I added
>     export LESSCHARSET=iso8859
> to my .bashrc.  It wasn't a problem with vim's defaults.

How about when telnet/ssh'ing into a machine? I sometimes read the email on my
laptop from my desktop machine at work, and most extended characters show up as
/?/ as well. 

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