Mutt and UTF8

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:28:12PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>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, ...?

I have a slightly strange setup I guess. I run Mutt inside a screen (as
in the command screen(1)) inside a Gnome terminal. But I've also tested
it without screen in a Gnome terminal, and also in a regular tty both
with and without screen. In all cases, exactly the same behaviour.

Now the weirdest thing: when I run it in xterm (with screen or without)
I don't have any problems at all. (In my WM menu (sawfish with the
Debian menu) I have two xterms one regular and one "unicode", both work
just fine.)

I set the locale (en_GB.UTF8) using 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' so
'/etc/environment' looks like this:

 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

I've also set en_GB to be my locale in gdm so locale outputs the
following whether it's done in a Gnome terminal, xterm, or in a tty
console:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

>> 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,
>
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>Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
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