On Saturday, August 26, 2006 at 11:02:55 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> vim is set up to try utf-8 first, and if it fails fall back to
> iso-8859-1.
This Vim smart charset auto-sensing is a great feature, outside of
Mutt. For Mutt, by design, the $editor must be dumb, and use only the
charset of the locale. People *can* run for years with auto-sensing
enabled, it works OK most of the time. But in some scenarios it can
fail, and happens to hide from user's eyes the symptoms of a real
problem, in config, or in the replied mail.
I generally recommend to disable auto-sensing in Vim when called by
Mutt, by unsetting $fileencodings. But I don't know how it will interact
with your specific $encoding and $termencoding settings. Perhaps will
you be forced to hardcode $fileencodings=latin1. Feedback welcome please.
Hardcoding any given charset is never very good, this should be let
free to follow whatever is the current locale. But hey...
> mutt would either auto detect that the file [saved by Vim] is in utf-8
No: Such auto-sensing is an heuristic, having a limited charsets
palette, and possibility of wrong guess. In some other cases, it is
very handy. In this case, a robust setting would be more adapted.
> Setting my terminal really in utf-8 mode would solve all my problems,
> the problem is that all the software I use currently does not support
> that, so I keep my terminal in latin1 mode.
Locale is an environment thing: Each process can have it's own. You
can run Mutt in an UTF-8 terminal, other apps in a Latin-1 one. Set LANG
depending on the terminal, or such, nothing complicated. You can even
run 2 Mutts in 2 different terms simultaneously, if well configured.
Bye! Alain.
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