Can Mutt translate graphical emoticons to ASCII/ANSI characters?

Ant

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Jul 26, 2009, 6:12:27 PM7/26/09

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Hello!

I noticed in my Mutt v1.4.1i client on my friend's old Fedora/Linux
server with SSH2 connections, I see emoticons changed to unreadable
characters. Like a happy face to "J". Or "\001" to don't know what it
is. Most users use graphical e-mail clients like Outlook so they would
have graphical emoticons and stuff.

Can newer Mutt translate properly or is there something else I need to
show them correctly? I still prefer old school text e-mail reader like
Pine and Mutt. I still use Tin for my newsreader too!

Thank you in advance. :)
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Indi

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Jul 26, 2009, 9:32:40 PM7/26/09

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On 2009-07-26, Ant <ANT...@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I noticed in my Mutt v1.4.1i client on my friend's old Fedora/Linux
> server with SSH2 connections, I see emoticons changed to unreadable
> characters. Like a happy face to "J". Or "\001" to don't know what it
> is. Most users use graphical e-mail clients like Outlook so they would
> have graphical emoticons and stuff.
>
> Can newer Mutt translate properly or is there something else I need to
> show them correctly? I still prefer old school text e-mail reader like
> Pine and Mutt. I still use Tin for my newsreader too!
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

I believe you'll want to make sure your version of mutt is recent and that
the machine and the terminal you're using understand UTF-8. Even so, you
might occasionally see some weirdness in mail from people using older or
non-UTF-8-capable software. I sometimes see that in mail from people using
older versions of outlook or eudora.

HTH,
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Ant

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Jul 26, 2009, 11:16:54 PM7/26/09

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On 7/26/2009 6:32 PM PT, Indi typed:

Ah, I use PuTTY and SecureCRT for my Windows SSH clients. Not sure if
they do UTF-8.
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Indi

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Jul 27, 2009, 9:48:08 AM7/27/09

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On 2009-07-27, Ant <ANT...@zimage.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/2009 6:32 PM PT, Indi typed:
>
>>> I noticed in my Mutt v1.4.1i client on my friend's old Fedora/Linux
>>> server with SSH2 connections, I see emoticons changed to unreadable
>>> characters. Like a happy face to "J". Or "\001" to don't know what it
>>> is. Most users use graphical e-mail clients like Outlook so they would
>>> have graphical emoticons and stuff.
>>>
>>> Can newer Mutt translate properly or is there something else I need to
>>> show them correctly? I still prefer old school text e-mail reader like
>>> Pine and Mutt. I still use Tin for my newsreader too!
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance. :)
>>
>> I believe you'll want to make sure your version of mutt is recent and that
>> the machine and the terminal you're using understand UTF-8. Even so, you
>> might occasionally see some weirdness in mail from people using older or
>> non-UTF-8-capable software. I sometimes see that in mail from people using
>> older versions of outlook or eudora.
>
> Ah, I use PuTTY and SecureCRT for my Windows SSH clients. Not sure if
> they do UTF-8.

Yes, I'm afraid putty tends to be a problem.

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Matthew Loar

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Jul 27, 2009, 1:34:59 PM7/27/09

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PuTTY supports UTF-8, it just defaults to ISO-8859-1 on Windows. Select
UTF-8 in Settings->Window->Translation.

Matt