Re: Technical help on mutt?
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 19:10 |
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:43:44PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> I have recently switched to mutt as my main mail client, and I can't
> figure out how to get it to render Latin-1 properly. With the default
> LANG setting of "en_US.UTF8" I get \nnn octal escapes, and with "en_US"
> I get ?s. Putting 'set charset="iso-8859-1"' into the .muttrc file
> doesn't help either. The problem is definitely not in the terminal
> window or the font, as other character-mode apps work fine.
>
> Can anyone help? The workaround I need to display proper Latin-1 is
> very annoying.
[snip]
Did you try setting:
set allow_8bit
?
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:-P
T
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