Mutt and UTF8

[Andrew Pollock]

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

I've seen this as well, running Mutt inside screen and using PuTTY on a
Windows box.

My theory was something to do with the fact that some characters were
double-byte and the width of two characters was being used, when the
character was really only one character wide, which then threw all sorts of
line-wrapping stuff into a spin. But that's just a theory of someone who is
not at all clued on the ins and outs of UTF-8.

regards

Andrew

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