[plug] Mutt, iso-8859-1 and me

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> 
> G'day,
> 
> Does anyone here know how to convince Mutt (1.5.3 on Debian) to display
> accented letters and other "weird" 8-bit characters correctly?  For some
> reason known only to libiconv, they show up on my machine as random octal
> numbers, like "\351" instead of an acute e.
> 
> I've tried adding set charset="iso-8859-1" to my .muttrc to no avail.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> CP.
> 
> 
> 

Have you tried ISO-8859-15?

I had problems with ISO-8859-1 and PINE v 4.44, posted a message on the 
PINE list, was told that it should be set to ISO 8859-15, so I reset
it to ISO-8859-15, and the problem disappeared.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
....................................................