On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:43:59PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I think mutt justs uses iso8859 charset and you are not using it. > > > Therefore there is a character set mismatch. It is really hard to > > > call it a bug to use an iso8859 character set. > > > > No, this is not a character set issue, it's the fact that the mutt > > manual includes SGR (ANSI) escapes. See my message of a couple of > > minutes ago for more details. > > Hmm... I don't see any escapes in the manual. > > dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz > mutt: /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz > dpkg -l mutt > ii mutt 1.3.28-2 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG,
Indeed, groff 1.18 with the SGR escaping stuff didn't arrive until after woody, and it's groff >= 1.18 that's responsible for the formatting of the manual in current versions of mutt. manual.txt is built from manual.sgml during the package's build process, and sgml2txt calls groff. By the way: mutt (1.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium [...] * Stop generating escape codes in the manual. (Closes: #167006) [...] -- Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:13:15 +0100 > But I *do* see reverse video highlighting of the bullet characters. > The first I see are at section "1.2. Mailing Lists" where character > 183 decimal is being used as a list bullet. Those show up as a > reverse video '<B7>' (hex value) unless I use an iso8859 charset, in > which case they show up as a dot. You're right that manual.txt is encoded in ISO-8859-1. This seems to be a deliberate choice by whoever maintains that part of mutt, but I don't know why. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]