Re: The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:42:05PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> That's the way I get them, and setting LANG doesn't seem to help any.
> Makes it amusing to read English with this new fad of accent marks,
> I must say.
>
> If anyone knows how to configure Mutt not to misbehave this way,
> I'd be happy to know about it.
If you know your terminal charset, you can tell Mutt what it is in the
muttrc, e.g.:

        set charset=iso-8859-1

for Latin-1.  But that only helps if the message being sent is
created with the proper header information about *its* charset,
which seems to be where the problem is.

This message is going out as UTF-8 (only because I have the
date in Latin in the headers complete with macrons), but with
a properly-configured Mutt you should still be able to read
any text whose characters are taken only from the Latin-1
subset, like the following Subject: line from an earlier message:

        ¿Puedes oír los tambores, Fernando?

-Mark

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