| Stephen Gran on 3 Jan 2005 15:27:21 -0000 |
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:49:58AM -0500, eric@lucii.org said: > I receive emails that are written on various systems and I notice that a > number of "special" characters that don't display well in mutt. In > particular, for some emails... > > I see: don?t instead of: don't > I see: word?word instead of: word - word > I see: ?word? instead of: "word" > > Some of these are, I believe, "smart quotes" in Windows applications. > Others are replaced dashes between words or elipsis. When I edit the > email in VIM I see either the correct character or a code that > represents the character: don<92>t > > In a recent email I noticed the character set was specified as iso-8859-15 > so I put these lines in my .muttrc: > > set charset="iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15" > # used to be: > # set charset="ascii" > set send_charset="us-ascii" > > but now don?t becomes: don\264t > > How do other mutt users deal with this - besides not accepting email from > Windows users :-) Is this setting actually "outside" of Mutt? It is actually outside of mutt :) Windows uses some non-standard character set extensions, and they are not part of any of the usual character sets, so mutt has no way of knowing about them. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the | | steve@lobefin.net | men are strong, the women are pretty, | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | and the children are above-average. - | | | - Garrison Keillor | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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