Bug 68168

Summary:	Pager cannot display 8 bit characters.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Olivier Baudron <olivier.baudron>
Component:	mutt	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Olivier Baudron 2002-07-07 11:04:30 UTC

I upgraded mutt/slang (and newt/slrn/kudzu for dependencies) from RH7.3 to
rawhide: mutt-1.2.5.1-1 and slang-1.4.5-2.

Now, mutt cannot display any 8 bit character anymore, such as ihj (french
accents). It either displays a '?' or the octal value. The pager is the default
one. I had a deep look through the manual and tested several variables but could
not find a way to fix the problem.

Can someone reproduce this?

Comment 1 Olivier Baudron 2002-07-07 11:06:35 UTC

Bugzilla has also 8 bit problems...
ihj should read \'e \`e and \^e (tex notations).

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-08 06:01:59 UTC

mutt 1.2.5.1 or mutt 1.4?

Comment 3 Olivier Baudron 2002-07-08 10:25:57 UTC

Sorry, you are right. The upgrade that causes the problem is:
mutt-1.2.5.1-1 -> 1.4-4
slang-1.4.5-2 -> 1.4.5-7

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-08 18:27:55 UTC

What locale are you running in?

Comment 5 Olivier Baudron 2002-07-29 16:36:14 UTC

I am in C locale.

Comment 6 Olivier Baudron 2002-08-14 00:43:14 UTC

$ LC_ALL=en_GB mutt  => works
$ LC_ALL=C mutt      => fails

Well...  when a mail says in its header:
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
the pager should display the body with this charset, even in C locale, no?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2003-03-20 01:52:36 UTC

slang is using the current LC_CTYPE to determine what characters are printable.
If it's set to 'C', other charsets won't be considered printable.