On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, (as I wrote), mutt's manual.txt says that the charset setting is >used for that. This is your interpretation of the manual.
>> >So what's the point of the charset setting? After all, the manual.txt >> It tells mutt about which charaset you are typing. > >The exact quote from the docs is: > > Character set your terminal uses to display and enter textual data. > >Note the "display" in addition to "enter". So not only: > >> It tells mutt about which charaset you are typing. > >but also what can be displayed. Do you know any terminal type for which this is not the same? I agree it may be confusing, if you can think of a better wording please submit a patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(*) I really hate it when people close bugs with a one-liner (or less) >answer, without any substantiating motivation. Especially when parts of That's fair. I have when people keep reporting this as a bug even after it has been discussed many times in many other bug reports. -- ciao, Marco