* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > > and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > > and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they > > are supposed to. It is, in other words, only a problem in mutt. > > > > I have read man muttrc and fiddled with settings a while, but I have not > > managed to crack the problem. Normally the characters come up as > > question marks, but if I put "set charset=iso-8859-1" in my ~/.muttrc I > > get the the special characters coming up as "\345", which is even worse. > > Does anybody have any similar experiences, and a solution to it? > > > > I think I have found a clue about the source of this problem. I > downloaded the mutt source code and looked at the configure options > and found this: > > --enable-locales-fix > on some systems, the result of isprint() can't be used reliably > to decide which characters are printable, even if you set the > LANG environment variable. If you set this option, Mutt will > assume all characters in the ISO-8859-* range are printable. If > you leave it unset, Mutt will attempt to use isprint() if either > of the environment variables LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE is set, > and will revert to the ISO-8859-* range if they aren't. > > So, i tried building mutt with this configuration option and found that > international characters display properly in the internal pager. I then > built another version without setting this option and the the characters > did not display properly, just like in the current woody mutt package. > > Apparently, the mutt package is not built with this option. I suppose > the question now is whether it should be built with it or if, instead, > the library containing isprint ought to be fixed instead.
Thank you for clearing this up Mark, I really appreciate it. I am not sure whether the "flea" is worth getting the source and compiling it myslef for, but at least now I know. I think I'll just wait for a version that can handle my croocked language's special characters, it's not like I need it much anyway. Probably not more than 0.05% of my email are from non-english writing people anyway (much because of this list ;) and I can perfectly understand the ones that I get. It is just a mild annoyance. Again, thank you. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343