[ILUG] Special Characters in Mutt

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:05:51PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh mentioned:
> > > a e i o u
> > 
> >  Looks good to me. Can't see what the pager has done, that I haven't...
> > 
> > Kate
> 
> well, now that I'm writing this email in vim I can see the characters
> again, but when the mail was displayed within mutt I could see question
> marks.
 
 Add this to your .muttrc;

set   allow_8bit      # never do Q-P encoding on legal 8-bit chars
set   charset="iso-8859-15"
set   send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:utf-8"
set   to_chars=" +TCF"  

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