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On Monday, October 4 at 11:25 AM, quoth Athanasius:
>> I'm unsure if I should completely switch to UTF-8 already, maybe
>> this would cause big disaster in the receiving sites, mailing lists
>> etc. What is the opinion about of other mutt users and what is the
>> tendenz we should follow?
I've been using mutt as a UTF-8 "enabled" program for... gosh,
probably four years now. So, it works, and it works well. Here are
some things to consider, though:
1. As has been said, mutt uses the smallest necessary charset (of the
options listed in $send_charset, in order). This makes it very
compatible; for the most part, I generally use the UTF-8 capability
only for displaying emails (with some rare exceptions).
2. Mutt's ability to display UTF-8 is limited by the libraries and
environment it relies upon. So, if your terminal can't understand
UTF-8 (or isn't configured to understand it), if you don't have
fonts with the new characters, if you don't have ncursesw or a
similar version of slang... lots of things can trip you up.
And, some general charset comments:
3. As has been said before on this list, never EVER EVER EVER set
$charset yourself unless you know what you're doing and why. Mutt
should be able to figure out what the charset is by itself. In
virtually all cases, if mutt guesses the charset wrong, then your
environment is set up incorrectly. The only good reason to set
$charset manually is to use some special features in your iconv
library that mutt may not know about.
4. The $config_charset variable changes the way mutt interprets the
config file from that point on. Use only if necessary.
5. The $assumed_charset variable, for most English speakers, should be
"windows-1252" (aka cp1252). YMMV, if you have special
circumstances.
6. Charset-hooks are your friend! Most of the time, though, you'll
just be using charset-hooks to map commonly mislabelled charsets to
windows-1252.
~Kyle
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