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I have trouble with the mutt mail client. Yesterday I installed Debian Jessie, the system is ok, but the in the main view mutt does not show either Polish or German diacritic marks. When I want to put polish diacritic marks while composing new mail, mutt shows strange marks instead of polish signs (for example, "M-E~B" instead of "ł". Also all mutt messages are in English. Interestingly, when I write new mail, diacritic marks are there - that is, the console recognizes Polish characters. As a text editor I use the ne - nice editor. Can you help me?
This is a locale problem. Mutt needs to know that you want Polish messages and that your mail will not be plain ascii. This page should help: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Charset
It didn't help, mutt still shows ??? instead of polish or german special marks.
That is what the file INSTALL in the mutt source package mutt-1.8.2 says:
Quote:
Character set support
=====================
Mutt no longer contains functions for doing character set conversion.
Instead, it expects the iconv functions (iconv_open, iconv,
iconv_close) to be provided. Most up-to-date systems provide these
functions, often as part of the C library. If you are installing Mutt
on a system which does not have them, it is recommended that you
install Bruno Haible's portable libiconv library, which you can obtain
from:
Even if your system does provide the iconv functions, you might want
to install libiconv, as some systems provide only a very limited
version of iconv.
If you decide to use your system's iconv implementation, you may
need to tell mutt about implementation-defined names for some
character sets. Sample configuration files for various systems can
be found in the directory contrib/iconv/ in this source
distribution, and will be installed in the samples/iconv directory
as part of mutt's documentation.
Distribution: Slackware (current), FreeBSD, Win10, It varies
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Originally Posted by makowka
It didn't help, mutt still shows ??? instead of polish or german special marks.
That is what the file INSTALL in the mutt source package mutt-1.8.2 says:
How should I understand this?
Quote:
, it is recommended that you
install Bruno Haible's portable libiconv library, which you can obtain
from:
Even if your system does provide the iconv functions, you might want
to install libiconv, as some systems provide only a very limited
version of iconv.
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