hi, by accident I discovered that I can compose Japanese kana (hiragana, katakana) in mutt. I wonder if this is a feature, or somewhere lurking in my mutt and FreeBSD setup (although I only use default software and settings). I have NL language settings for UTF-8 on a user level in my system, and use Vim as the editor for my emails. BTW, this described here doesn't work in Vim, but only in mutt.
It works like this: typing a letter, then backspace and then another letter -- just making a typo and correcting it. m <backspace> e --> め (hiragana `me`) M <backspace> e -- メ (katakana `me`) it just works with all characters, only the plain `a` in both writings I cannot find. this way of composing also gives acces to Cyrillic `ja` я, ju `ю` and `cs` щ, and also to e.g. Arabic numbers ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ and ۹ by combining a number and `a` as described above. this way of composing is different from typing characters that are behind the <AltG> or right-alt key, which I use for typing several European languages (å ä é ø æ ü, etc). somehow it is funny to be able to write my name in Japanese, but it can also be a PITA when making too much typo's. so my question is: * is this a feature of mutt? * can it be switched on/off somehow? TIA, //meine
