Re: [tlug] Sylpheed in Gentoo

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:03:05AM +0800, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
> 
> On 1/22/2003, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> >However, sending a Japanese email from mutt didn't work-- I could see
> the
> >English part of the email but not the Japanese part--changing encodings
> from
> >Auto select didn't work either--Euc showed a katakana yu and shiftjis
> showed
> >
> >something that was kanji, but nothing near what I wrote. (Mutt, IIRC uses
> EUC).
> 
> mutt will happily send whatever garbage it's fed as US-ASCII or
> iso-8859-1
> unless you specifically tell it that you want Japanese messages sent out as
> 
> Japanese. Make sure that the outgoing mail from mutt has something like
>     charset="iso-2022-jp"
> somewhere in the headers.
> 
> BTW, some people may tell you to use mutt-j instead, but vanilla mutt is 
> sufficient for your testing purposes. (mutt-j addresses more subtle
> problems
> that occur when using Japanese on a regular basis.)
> 

I have found that if I run mutt in a UTF-8 locale, every mail that comes
in is converted to that using iconv and displays correctly. It will also
correctly determine the encoding of a composed mail and set the headers
appropriately. Although I have never tried to send a iso-2022-jp mail, utf-8
is just easier in my setup, the way to do it would be get vim/other editor
to write it's output file in the desired charset.

Tim.

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