On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:57:50PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 21 May 2008 13:59 +0100, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > > I frequently get E-Mail (from France in particular) which doesn't > > specify its charset. I'm pretty sure it's assuming iso-8859-1. Is > > there any way I can tell mutt to use a particular character set when > > viewing an incoming mail 'on the fly' as it were, i.e. when I see the > > mail has \xxx sequences in it? > > Have a look at <edit-type>, bound to Ctrl+E by default I believe. > > You can add or change the charset specifier there - for example, if > the mail has "text/plain", you can change it to > "text/plain; charset=iso8859-1". > Brilliant, exactly what I needed, thank you. I think this calls for a macro to do it, "; charset=iso8859-1" is just a bit too long and unmemorable!
-- Chris Green