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Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?



On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:20:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Ah, Mutt is known not to work with Hebrew.
> 
> Mutt works fine.  The problem, if one exists, is what font the
> terminal is using in which mutt is running.  The font must support
> UTF-8 or it can't display those characters properly.  If someone is
> using a classic 9x15 ASCII font for example it will be unable to
> display the extended characters.  The "gibberish" text will only
> display as a row of dashes and spaces.
>   
> > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
> 
> I see all of the characters in mutt and in emacs editing this reply
> but only because I am running inside of an xterm that is using a
> Unicode font.  When I send this with mutt it will attempt to send

I am running mutt with mlterm (multilingual terminal) and it doesn't 
show correctly. I experimented with xfce4-terminal and fonts and I can 
tell it's not the font (I use Terminus). Does anybody know how to make 
mlterm display everything right?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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