On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> LC_ALL=es_ES
> while I see most special characters fine (Spanish, German,
> Scandinavian, ...), I sometimes see `?'s in some mails ...
So what charset do these mails use? It sound to me that these mails
use a wrong charset (DOS, Mac or something like this).
> is recompilation with the `--enable-locales-fix' option the only
> solution to it?
--enable-locales-fix is never a solution, it is only a workarround.
What this switch does is hard coding ISO-8859-1 into your mutt,
instead of using the locale settings. Your LC_CTYPE is set to es_ES
(LC_ALL overrides the setting of LC_CTYPE), so if you have a working
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_CTYPE installed, everything works as
expected.
You should use --enable-locales-fix only if your system locale files
are completely broken, but then you may have a bigger problem than the
question marks in Mutt, because there are many programs using locale
to find out what characters are printable and things like this.
Ciao
Roland
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