In days of yore (Sat, 23 Mar 2024), Sadeep Madurange thus quoth: > On 2024-03-23 11:10:11, Sirius via Mutt-users wrote: > > In days of yore (Sat, 23 Mar 2024), Sadeep Madurange thus quoth: > > > When I view the following email in mutt, I see a bunch of question marks > > > where the spaces are. I checked the codepoints and they all seem to be > > > the normal space (0x20) character in the ASCII table. > > > > My initial guess is that this is not a mutt problem but rather a display > > problem related to your environment. What does your LANG and LC variables > > look like and what are your locale settings? If at all possible, run with > > UTF-8. > > Initially, LANG was unset and LC_CTYPE="C". The character encoding was > US-ASCII. I changed these variables (i.e., LANG, LC_CTYPE and locale > settings) to en_US.UTF-8. Then the ? changed to �. So, looks like you > are on to something. I will check this with OpenBSD community as well.
For reference, in my Debian Bookworm, I have the following: sirius�~�$�locale LANG=sv_SE.UTF8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF8" LC_ALL= I run this in a WSL on Win11, but have this config replicated across Fedora, RHEL and Debian VMs and physical systems. In my .mutt/muttrc, I have the following set: set ascii_chars=yes set assumed_charset="utf-8:iso-8859-1:us-ascii" set charset="utf-8" set config_charset="utf-8" It may be that you just need to pop in the "set charset="utf-8"" in your mutt config and you are good to go. > In Xdefaults, I have set XTerm*utf-8 setting to true as well. > > > It could also be related to the font used in Xterm, so worth trying > > another font (preferably one that has a decent portion of the UTF-8 > > glyphs). > > Unlikely to be a problem with the font. I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono, > which I used on Linux in the past without any problem. That should be a good font. If you are in the market for some other good fonts, take a look at Monafont. > -- > Sadeep Madurange > PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E -- Kind regards, /S
