Re: utf problem with mutt
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the basic charset > used is utf8 > > but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... > > reading french and german mails in the great majority, this isn't very > practical... > > is there a solution to this? They're probably emails from broken MUAs that don't set the charset e-mail headers properly. Now that you are using utf-8 mutt's default "I don't know what charset this email is actually written in" charset is also utf-8. If you are mostly reading French and German emails then these broken MUAs are probably actually sending in iso-8859-1. Try adding these two lines to your ~/.muttrc file to tell mutt to assume iso-8859-1 for broken emails: set strict_mime=no set assumed_charset="iso-8859-1:utf-8:us-ascii" -- CJ van den Berg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: utf problem with mutt
[pushing the discussion back on-list] At 1148408048 past the epoch, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland > wrote: > > I do have some issues, however, using this underneath a > > screen session. > > ehm i am exactly under a screen session since i migrate > quite often... i tryed in a regular term and indeed > there's no problem Try passing the '-U' option to screen, that enables "UTF-8 mode". I haven't managed to fix problems doing this but you may have more luck. > is there an easy way to retrieve the vpackage version > number? dpkg -l > > > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to > > > that horrible nano instead of the normal vim, any way > > > to stop this? > > > > Yes: change the priority of the vim alternative for > > "editor" to something very low. see man 8 > > update-alternatives. > > ok -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utf problem with mutt
At 1148378437 past the epoch, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > edit the link in /etc/alternatives so that editor points to vim > instead of nano. That'll still get zapped on upgrade if nano carries a lower priority (which it seems to). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utf problem with mutt
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > [...] > > > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to that horrible nano > > instead of the normal vim, any way to stop this? > > I did not yet have time to figure out why every vim upgrade now > redirects /etc/alternatives/editor to something other than vim, > therefore I just put > > set editor="/usr/bin/vim" > > in my ~/.muttrc file. That settles it at least as far as mutt is > concerned. That works. The vim 7.0-017+4 changelog mentioned changes to the alternatives handling, saying it should only be removed on removes, not upgrades. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I'm continually AMAZED at th'breathtaking effects of WIND EROSION!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utf problem with mutt
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: [...] > > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to that horrible nano > instead of the normal vim, any way to stop this? > edit the link in /etc/alternatives so that editor points to vim instead of nano. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: utf problem with mutt
At 1148380811 past the epoch, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the > basic charset used is utf8 > > but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... > > is there a solution to this? Well it doesn't happen to me with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, locales 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 and mutt 1.5.9-2sarge1. I do have some issues, however, using this underneath a screen session. What package versions do you have? > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to that > horrible nano instead of the normal vim, any way to stop > this? Yes: change the priority of the vim alternative for "editor" to something very low. see man 8 update-alternatives. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utf problem with mutt
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: [...] > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to that horrible nano > instead of the normal vim, any way to stop this? I did not yet have time to figure out why every vim upgrade now redirects /etc/alternatives/editor to something other than vim, therefore I just put set editor="/usr/bin/vim" in my ~/.muttrc file. That settles it at least as far as mutt is concerned. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
