mutt and danish characters (æøå)

[Jeppe Larsen]

I just started using mutt and I really like it, but I have som problems
with the danish characters (æ ø å Æ Ø Å). They either appear as ?'s or
as \346 \370 and so on. But only in mutt. If I read my real with more,
less, cat or some texteditor like vi or emacs, the characters is
displayed just fine. So I suppose it is something wrong with mutt, and
not my term settings.
I have tried to change the 'set charset' in .muttrc to all kind of
things, like utf-8, iso-8859-1, latin1 and so on without any luck.
So now I am all out of ideas. Is there something else I could try?

Thanks!

-Jeppe Larsen

[Sarunas Vancevicius]

Add this to your .muttrc:

set charset=isolatin

Seems to display names with Danish characters fine. In case it doesn't for
you, try other charsets (iso-8859-1 or US-ASCII or your local one).

--
Sarunas Vancevicius

[Jeppe Larsen]

Sarunas Vancevicius wrote:
>
>
> Add this to your .muttrc:
>
> set charset=isolatin
>
> Seems to display names with Danish characters fine. In case it doesn't for
> you, try other charsets (iso-8859-1 or US-ASCII or your local one).
>

Well, thanks, but it didn't work. As said, I have allready try several
different values in i 'set charset'. The only changes I get when
changing the charset, is that sometimes instead of ?'s the signs are
displayed as \370 and so on.

[Magne Rodem]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:50:46PM +0200, Jeppe Larsen wrote:
> Well, thanks, but it didn't work. As said, I have allready try several
> different values in i 'set charset'. The only changes I get when
> changing the charset, is that sometimes instead of ?'s the signs are
> displayed as \370 and so on.

You could probably fix this by changing your LC_CTYPE environment
variable.

Since I'm norwegian, my LC_CTYPE is set to no_NO. I guess da_DK would be
more appropriate for you. Try this (for i.e. bash, sh, ksh or zsh):

export LC_CTYPE=da_DK

Then run mutt. If it works, add it to your shells rc-file (i.e. .bashrc)
to make it permanent.

--
Magne Rodem

[Jeppe Larsen]

Magne Rodem wrote:
> You could probably fix this by changing your LC_CTYPE environment
> variable.
>
> Since I'm norwegian, my LC_CTYPE is set to no_NO. I guess da_DK would be
> more appropriate for you. Try this (for i.e. bash, sh, ksh or zsh):
>
> export LC_CTYPE=da_DK
>
> Then run mutt. If it works, add it to your shells rc-file (i.e. .bashrc)
> to make it permanent.
>

Thanks! That worked. At least on most mails, but the ones from hotmail
still had problems. Then I google'ed a litte and found this setting that
solved that prolem too:
charset-hook US-ASCII iso-8859-1

-Jeppe Larsen

[Alain Bench]

Hello Jeppe,

In article <cfqng7$76f$1...@news.cybercity.dk>
Jeppe Larsen <ya...@hardware.dk> wrote:-

> [danish chars] from hotmail still had problems. Then I google'ed a

> litte and found this setting that solved that prolem too:
>| charset-hook US-ASCII iso-8859-1

Real character set in Hotmail mails appears to be more like CP-1252.
You may have better results with:

| charset-hook ^us-ascii$ windows-1252

Bye! Alain.
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