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Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.18-6
Severity: important
If I use mutt in my default locale, mutts messages are partial broken
(umlauts are replaced by ? for example, some characters seem missing
completely) and some message are not shown (I have to guess them).
Examples are:
Purge 1 deleted message? ([no]/yes):
Recall postponed message? ([yes]/no):
Especially the first one can lead to data loss when not shown.
Please ask me which further information I should provide. I use mutt
extensively on the console. This happens both in local VTs as well as
in those over ssh.
-- Package-specific info:
Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.6.XX.XX (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20081213 (compiled with 5.7)
libidn: 1.8 (compiled with 1.10)
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Apr 24 2006 03:50:27)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP +USE_GSS -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS
+USE_SASL +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.
patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2
patch-1.5.13.cd.purge_message.3.4
patch-1.5.13.nt+ab.xtitles.4
patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1
patch-1.5.8.hr.sensible_browser_position.3
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libidn11 1.8+20080606-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tr 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii locales 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii aspell 0.60.6-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii ca-certificates 20080809 Common CA certificates
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3+lenny1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii ispell 3.1.20.0-4.4 International Ispell (an interacti
pn mixmaster <none> (no description available)
ii openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny6 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii urlview 0.9-18 Extracts URLs from text
Versions of packages mutt is related to:
ii mutt 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting M
pn mutt-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn mutt-patched <none> (no description available)
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Re: Helge Kreutzmann 2010-05-01 <20100501154149.ga12...@ipxxxxxx>
> Coherent locale ... yes, though I did not expect it within mutt. I
> used this config file for well, 10 years or so (updated when need
> arose), but now I found that by changing:
> set charset="iso-8859-1"
> into
> set charset="utf-8"
>
> Everything is displayed fine.
>
> Maybe you could add a note for people upgrading from non-UTF-8 locales
> to UTF-8 locales?
Hi Helge,
thanks for the followup.
Actually, setting "locale" is a bug (in the sense of "asking for
trouble") on systems where setting LC_* works. From the manual:
charset
Type: string
Default: “”
Character set your terminal uses to display and enter textual
data. It is also the fallback for $send_charset.
Upon startup Mutt tries to derive this value from environment
variables such as $LC_CTYPE or $LANG.
Note: It should only be set in case Mutt isn't abled to
determine the character set used correctly.
I'm closing the bug.
Christoph
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