On May 04, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sure, whatever, but *my* original point is that there is a setting in >mutt, namely "charset", which is documented to tell mutt what character >set the terminal is capable of displaying and entering. This used to That's correct. It's used to set the charset attribute of the Content-Type header. Nothing else. It does *NOT* do what you think it does.
>work fine, but suddenly it doesn't anymore even though the docs have not >changed one iota in this respect. I'd suggest that as long as the This used to work only because you use latin-1, i.e. you did not need a $LC_CTYPE value anyway. >"charset" setting is still supported in mutt, mutt should use that to >override an absence of any locale settings (as it in fact did in the >past, effectively). It did not. -- ciao, Marco