On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the basic charset > used is utf8 > > but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... > > reading french and german mails in the great majority, this isn't very > practical... > > is there a solution to this? They're probably emails from broken MUAs that don't set the charset e-mail headers properly. Now that you are using utf-8 mutt's default "I don't know what charset this email is actually written in" charset is also utf-8. If you are mostly reading French and German emails then these broken MUAs are probably actually sending in iso-8859-1. Try adding these two lines to your ~/.muttrc file to tell mutt to assume iso-8859-1 for broken emails: set strict_mime=no set assumed_charset="iso-8859-1:utf-8:us-ascii" -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj@vdbonline.com xmpp:cj@vdbonline.com
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