Re: Charset problems with mutt 1.5.18

[ Apologies to comp.mail.mutt - I know my References: header is
busted, and will fix it sometime. - Cameron
]

On 21May2008 16:38, André Berger <andre.berger@web.de> wrote:
| Before I submit a bug report, I would like to know if I'm missing
| something obvious. Capital umlauts (ÄÖÜ) and sz (ß) are displayed
| incorrectly here with mut 1.5.18+nntp+compressed on my Mac OS X
| 10.5.2 box. They look fine with 1.5.17, the same .muttrc, the same
| system. Here's more information, if you need more details, please
| tell me so:

I think we may. I have just viewed this message on my Mac running Mac OS X
10.5.2 using mutt-1.5.18, using both the standard Mac Terminal program and
the iTerm terminal emulator. I lack the nntp and compressed patches, but have
trouble imagining them as the cause.

Your capital umlauts and sz view just fine. I'll append my "mutt -v"
below for comparison.

Can you describe _how_ the glyphs are misrendered? I expect there's some
kind of locale or presumed charset issue. Do you have charset settings
in your mutt config?

Also, possibly there are relevant changes between 1.5.17 and 1.5.18,
though as I say your characters present correctly to me.
Have a skim of:
http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/shortlog

| $ ./mutt -v
[...]
| +USE_POP +USE_NNTP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL_OPENSSL -USE_SSL_GNUTLS -USE_SASL +HAVE_GETADDRINFO

You have +HAVE_NNTP, I don't.

| -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT

I have +EXACT_ADDDRESS.

| +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR

You have +COMPRESSED.

| PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
| SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"

I have:
PKGDATADIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-leopard-x86/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-leopard-x86/etc"

| patch-1.5.18.rr.compressed.1
| vvv.nntp

I don't have these. My full "mutt -v" is appended below.

I suspect locale/charset stuff.
I have:
set ascii_chars=no
#set assumed_charset="utf-8:iso-8859-1"
set charset = "//TRANSLIT"
set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
in my muttrc and:
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
in my environment.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743

[/Users/cameron]fleet*> mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Darwin 9.2.2 (i386)
ncurses: ncurses 5.6.20061217 (compiled with 5.6)
libiconv: 1.11
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Apr 28 2008
11:06:21)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL_OPENSSL
-USE_SSL_GNUTLS -USE_SASL +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME
+CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
+EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-leopard-x86/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-leopard-x86/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
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