Mutt and UTF8

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:41:51AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I am wondering whether my recent problems with Mutt may have anything to
> do with the fact that I switched my hoary system to use UTF8 (as was
> suggested in Ubuntu Traffic). I get an obscene amount of spam that's
> written in other encodings (Chinese? Japanese?), and Mutt used to
> happily show them, I couldn't read a single word, but still they were
> shown. After the switch it seems Mutt has more problems with those
> mails--the list view gets screwed up when highlighting mails forcing me
> to use ^L a whole lot to clear things up. Once I've deleted all
> unreadable spam Mutt works as perfect as ever.

That sounds to me as if the terminal isn't really UTF-8, or something
else in the chain is wrong. Can you explain more about the context? What
terminal or terminal emulator are you using, where did you set your
locale to UTF-8, are you using mutt remotely, ...?

> Anyone seeing similar behaviour? (Or am I the only one who favours good
> old Mutt over all the graphical mail readers out there?)

Not at all; see the headers of this mail. :-)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]