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

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> If you know your terminal charset, you can tell Mutt what it is in the
> muttrc, e.g.:
>
>         set charset=iso-8859-1
That is the terminal charset, and I do have it set that way.

> 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?
Well, when I look at that in the editor, all is well, but the built-in
Mutt pager displays it with \nnn escapes.

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