On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, March 19 at 03:29 PM, quoth Chris G: > >On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:14:43PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote: > >> On 19 Mar 2008 15:02 +0000, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > >> > Does something, somewhere *guess* the character set from the stream of > >> > characters it sees? > >> > >> Mutt looks at the message and picks the first charset from > >> $send_charset that allows an exact encoding. > >> > >> http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#send-charset > >> > >Well it's not a very good way of guessing then! :-) > > > >I'll try setting send-charset explicitly and see if that helps. > > This may help: http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset > That's where I started! :-)
I think my fundamental problem is between my editor and mutt. If I get mutt to understand what the characters I'm giving it are then all seems well. The pound signs I sent that were seen correctly by everyone on the mutt list (including me) were read from a file I had created directly from the command line and checked to see if it was proper utf-8 which it was. It's getting pound signs typed into my editor recognised by mutt as pound signs that is the issue. I think I'm on the right track now though. I need to get to my home system (currently at work) to really understand and sort it out though. -- Chris Green
