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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious encodig problem...
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 12:18:22
Message-Id: 20170402151806.4da121a3689f005c1eea1a82@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Mysterious encodig problem... by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 09:23:49 +0200 tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > it seems, that I have an encoding problem...which is triggered
5 > (only???) somewhere in the chain fetchmail=>procmail=>neomutt with vim.
6 >
7 > ...and it only effects single and double quotes.
8 >
9 > I am living in Non-Ascii-land (germany). Therefore I have
10 > some "strange" ;) characters on my keyboard...the "Umlauts"
11 > und the sharp S.
12 >
13 > All those are displayed nicely...in neomutt/vim also (which I use for
14 > mailing).
15 >
16 > When I receive an email with single quotes (') or double
17 > quotes ("), they will be changed to "???".
18 >
19 > My settings (settings to English language are for displaying -- for
20 > example -- manpages in their original version - not the translated ones):
21
22 Try to set LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. For manual you can set LANG=en_US, or
23 change LANG only for neomutt/vim, e.g.:
24
25 #/bin/sh
26 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 vim ...
27
28 Best regards,
29 Andrew Savchenko