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

[Volker Schlecht <vschlecht@gmx.net>]

* Mike Pfleger <pfleger@pfleger-precision.com> [010911 00:46]:
> > set locale="C"		      
> > unset allow_8bit  
> > set charset="iso-8859-1
> > set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf8"
> 
> I take it that there should be a closing double quote finishing off
> that set charset line?

Yep, forgot to mark that one when copying.

> Where did you get these configs?  I've dug
> into the vast manpage, but I must have missed the relevant bits.

There are lots of documented example configs floating around the net, I got
myself about 5 or so, looked in the docs for what they are supposed to
do, and then tried them out to see if that's what they were doing.
 
Learning to configure mutt is a lot like learning to code - you have
to look at what others did before you ;-)

> And finally, for those like myself, who are at a bit of a loss in this
> vast world of configs, what does that last line do?

I'm too lazy to look in the docs for what it is supposed to do, but
here's what it seems to do here: That's the succession of charsets to
try whether they match the characters used in a mail.

Thus, if a mail I write doesn't contain any non-us-ascii characters 
the header will contain "us-ascii" as charset, whereas if I use
Umlauts, iso-8859-1 is the charset to use. 

I never used utf8 characters before, so I suppose I just left that in
there when cannibalizing someone elses config.

regards,
Volker

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