It seems that ports are the maintainer for mutt.
Thus the report here.
This is a re-sent message because the first one was apparently rejected
because of image attachments. I changed them to links instead.
There's something wrong with mutt and UTF-8 in OpenBSD 3.9.
I didn't notice the problem before because I write mostly in English,
and Latin characters, but recently I was writing the mail in Cyrillic on
a machine running OpenBSD 3.7. When read from the machine running
OpenBSD 3.9 the Cyrillic text is botched. Some letters are shown OK,
and some are not. It seems that iswprint() informs mutt that these
letters are not printable.
The images below show you the following:
1. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/mutt_index39.png
-- how the mutt index looks like in 3.9
2. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/mutt_index.png
-- how it should look like
3. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/mutt_msg39.png
-- how a message looks like in 3.9
4. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/mutt_msg.png
-- how it should look like
One anomaly on the image #2 above is the first message.
It was produced on a machine running OpenBSD 3.9 and obviously the input
was not picked up as UTF-8 at all while typing Subject.
I must note here that even when typed on OpenBSD 3.7 the letters don't
look right while you type them, but they show OK in the index once you
press Enter as can be seen from the other message subjects.
The text of the messages has been typed in vim without a problem.
They show OK in "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 more" or in KMail.
They show OK in mutt on OpenBSD 3.7 (with small quirks).
They show OK in mutt I rebuilt from ports with one extra option (again
with a small quirk)
The quirk in OpenBSD 3.7 and rebuilt port on 3.9 can be seen in images
below:
5. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/mutt_mix.png
-- mixed Latin (word mutt) and Cyrillic
6. http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/vim_mix.png
-- same message edited in Vim started from mutt
This all used to _just work_ on OpenBSD.
The diff of "mutt -v" on OpenBSD 3.7 and OpenBSD 3.9 is here:
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/mutt/out.diff
I believe that the change has happened after the switch to gcc-3.x.
The configuration apparently thought that there are no WC_FUNCS on 3.7,
while it picks them up on 3.9 system.
I have recompiled mutt port adding --without-wc-funcs to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
Mutt behaves all right after that except the quirk above.
Again, this quirk didn't use to be there in OpenBSD before 3.7 either.
Since OpenBSD doesn't have locales, if you search mail archives you'll
find my messages where I recommend people to set up XTerm*locale: UTF-8
in .Xdefault, set charset=utf-8 in .muttrc, set encoding=utf-8 in Vim,
and alias for "more" as given above. It used to work perfectly. It
still does work in Vim, more, XTerm, and apparently KMail, but not mutt.
And that's bad.
I believe we should at least recompile mutt port --without-wc-funcs to
get a part of functionality back. Something else needs to be done to
get all back the way it used to be. Any ideas? Suggestions?
Best regards,
Zvezdan Petkovic
