Re: seeing umlauts in mutt (works okay in vim, not mutt)

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:01:41PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
| On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:49:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:28:19PM +0100, Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote:
| > > Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u "
| > > 
| > > :dig shows all currently-defined digraphs.
| > 
| > Vielen Danke!  Das vird nur noch ein bi?chen toll sein!
| > 
| > Tsch?s!
| > 
| > (Und eine Entschuldigun zu aller Deutscher heir f?r meine schlechte
| > deutsche Sprache). 
| 
| hey, now, watch your language. :)
| 
| (i didn't know about that one, either. vim's got so much i
| wonder if even the /author/ knows everything that's in there.)

I don't get this.

| now, who can tell us newbies how to make MUTT dislpay the 8-bit
| chars correctly? (i see lots of ? in mutt, but in vim all is
| lovely.)

What pager do you use with mutt?  I use less, and in my environment I
set 
    LESSCHARSET=iso8859
and then less displays the upper-ASCII characters (umlauts, etc)
properly.

HTH,
-D