Norwegian characters in mutt

corwax · 10-10-2003, 02:11 PM

I've got a problem with my mutt e-mail client. The norwegian characters 'æøå' are displayed as '?'.

I've tried to change the character set in .muttrc and the locales setting in .muttrc, but then the caracters are shown as something like '\370'.

I have no problem displaying these characters in pine.

bergentoo · 12-09-2005, 10:23 AM

did you ever get a reply to this question? I am having the same problem with the Norwegian characters and have not figured it out either. I get the characters in KDE, GNOME, and in terminal windows without problems, and I can even write the characters in nano when initiated by Mutt. But when receiving and sending the emails, the characters are muddled.

corwax · 12-09-2005, 10:46 AM

Wow! Two years have passed, and I didn't expect a reply to this one

Anyway, I was able to get the Norwegian characters visible in mutt by setting the LC_CTYPE variable in my shell. You can try typing "export LC_CTYPE=no_NO" just before executing mutt. If this works, you can add it to your shell's rc-file (probably .bashrc) to make it permanent.

Note that you need to have the "no_NO"-locale installed for this to work.