[SLUG] Irritating code instead of normal characters

[Paul Teasdale]

On Monday 09 Aug 2004 11:27, Al Girling wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> I believe you're correct with this, however, this is because I've not
> had mutt setup correctly.  I've spent a lot of time searching through
> the archives of mutt mails and experimenting.  I now have these
> included in my .muttrc.
>
> set charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> set send_charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> set allow_8bit
>
> I must confess I'm not certain about their function etc. as the mutt
> manual is suitably vague.  So I've no alternative but to try the suck
> the wires to see if they're live approach. :(
>

Hi Al,

Are you saying that you have just made these changes now based on this thread 
as that's what I am assuming? If so it looks very promising to me but if you 
already had these in your .muttrc then I'm totally puzzled.

I don't know Mutt at all but they seem fairly self-explanatory. Basically what 
you have done is to tell Mutt to use a Western European character set for 
both reading and sending messages (iso-8859-1 is a very common character set 
to use). Also you have specified 8 bits as that's what's required to show the 
extended characters in these character sets.

BTW during my experimentation with Mutt it took me five minutes to figure out 
how to compose a new mail. Room for a talk here I think ;)

>
> I've sent you a message about Tuesday night that contains no £ symbols
> could you reply with some included to see if this behaviour is repeated.
>

It's done!!

> Many thanks.
>
> AL

See you tomorrow night about 7pm :)

Kind regards,

Paul.

PS: I've put a £ symbol here too as a comparison with your other off-list mail 
message that didn't contain any £ signs.

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