Re: [tlug] can't view iso-2022 in mutt

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:04:39PM +0900, Andrew Hamilton wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:12:43PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:


> > My question is where would I begin looking for this?  Is it an mlterm
> > issue, a lack in fluxbox (unlikely, as I can see it in sylpheed) or
> > FreeBSD.  There is no ISO-2022 locale option--locale -a | grep ja_JP
> > just gives me euc, utf-8 and SJIS.  
> 
> It's actually a Mutt issue.
> 
> 
> The long and the short of it is, to *send* Japanese mail properly (by
> "properly", I mean "so that most Japanese-aware MUAs will know how to
> read it"), you need software that will transcode to ISO-2022-JP on the way
> to the server.  And, to be able to read emails that are sent by the
> vast majority of Japanese email programs, you'll need one that converts
> from ISO-2022-JP to whatever your terminal knows how to display.
> 
> Personally I used a Japanese-patched version of MUTT for this; it works
> well.

I gave a quick try to the Japanese version of mutt-devel with no joy. 

I then tried regular mutt-devel.  Aside from an interesting problem when
I was trying to send mail (invalid IDN, caused by a minor difference in
charset between mutt and muttng) it worked like a charm.  (I had had my
charset in .muttngrc as utf8.  .muttng requires it to be utf-8.)

So, major thanks to Mauro and Andrew.  One of those aggravating things
that is simple to solve when you know the answer.  I don't even have to
reset the charset to read the iso-2022-jp mail.


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