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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:28:44
Message-Id: 20070402201846.GA13609@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters by Juho Rosqvist
1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:10:58PM +0300, Juho Rosqvist wrote:
2 > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
3 > > Hello
4 > >
5 > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
6 > > > Juho Rosqvist <juho.rosqvist@×××××.fi> writes:
7 > > >
8 > > > > Now, the subject _should_ read:
9 > > > > Mutt and ÅåÄäÖö characters
10 > > > [snip]
11 > > > > I'm really at a loss as to what causes this problem, or how to fix it.
12 > > > > Help would be appreciated.
13 > > >
14 > > > The problem is that if mail headers (especially to, from and subject)
15 > > > contain non US-Ascii characters (as your email does), then the mail
16 > > > program is supposed to use the mechanism described in RFC2047. Your
17 > > > emailer is not doing this, but is sending the 'raw' Scandinavian
18 > > > characters. As to how to fix it, I am sorry but I cannot be of any
19 > > > help.
20 > >
21 > > I do not think this would be the problem, since MUTT does encode them
22 > > (at last my mutt with Czech characters and utf-8 charset). I would try
23 > > some other TUI application like mc or links. Vim handles the input
24 > > directly AFAIK, but these use readline library for it.
25 >
26 > I agree that my problem is probably input related. By your reply I
27 > presume that mutt uses readline for input; is this correct?
28
29 I'm not sure, it is just a guess. It is only the direction I would try
30 first if I had this problem, nothing definite...
31
32 --
33 Wait few minutes before opening this email. The temperature difference
34 could lead to vapour condensation.
35
36 Michal "vorner" Vaner

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt and CC%CC$CC6 characters Juho Rosqvist <juho.rosqvist@×××××.fi>