Gary: > For some reason although when I send emails containing certain umlauted > characters everything looks fine, the recipient sometimes (or possibly > always, I only know because one person mentioned it) doesn't see the > characters correctly. > > I have the following environment variables set > LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE = "de_CH.UTF-8" > > (LANG is en because I want to have my messages in English. Must LC_CTYPE > match?)
The charsets should probably match. I'm not sure whether the de_CH instead of en_US in LC_CTYPE makes any difference, i.e. you could probably just leave LC_CTYPE unset. If you want Swiss German conventions for everything except messages, e.g. sorting, time, and money formats, you should set LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 and LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8. > and within mutt I can see that Mutt has the charset variable set to > UTF-8 - ':set &charset ?charset' displays 'charset="utf-8"'. > > However if I send *myself* an email containing upper case an umlauted A, > O, or U I see garbage in mutt where the character should be, however if > I look at the email via webmail it looks fine. Similary if I send a > friend an email continaing (apparently) any type of umlauted character > (upper or lower case) they appear to be replaced by spaces. I notice > that the Content-Type header contains text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1. Is > that correct? In .muttrc send_charset is unset, so allegedly defaults to > charset, but that doesn't seem to be the case here for some reason. I don't use mutt, so I can't really help here, but a mintty user reported that he had to rebuild mutt against ncursesw (which is now part of the Cygwin distribution) to get UTF-8 in mutt working: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=124#c28 Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
