On 2024-03-23 12:52:40, Sirius Rayner-Karlsson via Mutt-users wrote: > 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. > > 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= > > 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.
Thanks for sharing your config. You're right. I needed to add "set charset=utf-8" to muttrc and set LC_CTYPE. The problem was I had set the latter in my .kshrc when I needed to set it in .xsession. It's all good now. > > 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. Thanks for the tip. Always appreciate those :) It looks nice. I will give it a go. -- Sadeep Madurange PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E
