23 Oct
2017
23 Oct
'17
8:32 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character
and moved on.
I have:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8...
And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8?
And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't
have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that.
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23 Oct
23 Oct
8:36 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character
and moved on.
I have:
I just joined the SunHelp rescue list a few weeks ago, and I've seen
several places where "curly quotes" get replaced by the letter b plus
another character I can't remember off the top of my head. This seems to be
a problem with their list rather than with mutt. I have to say, though,
that curly quotes are a huge problem encodingwise anyway. (It's always nice
to paste in some source code where the nice clean ASCII quotes have been
converted into matching pairs of curly quotes!)
--
Eric Christopherson
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8...
And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8?
And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I
didn't have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that. 
11:20 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Richard Loken wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A'
into a '?' and I never
noticed.
I'm using Alpine, too, and have no problems with the ? or any other
foreign character. I'm not even using UTF-8 but plain ISO-8859-1 in my
terminal.
But it's important to set "Display Character Set" and "Unknown
Character
Set" in Alpine's settings! Otherwise you'll see '?' for all non-ASCII
characters.
Christian
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