Re: Urgent !!! 'mutt' in UTF-8

[anmar oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Salam:

So it sounds like you have mutt supporting UTF-8 running. Know you need 
to read arabic and write it. Am I right ?

If that is what you are asking then here how you can make it do that 
(althought untested, it should work since mutt now supports utf-8)

- you need a bidi enabled terminal with fonts that support Arabic.  I 
could not recommend mlterm enough.  In the case of Debian Users (I am 
one and hope you are too ;))

On Debian Unstable (testing should be fine too) do:

	# apt-get install mlterm mlterm-tools unifont

	# cd /etc/mlterm/

	# uncomment the unicode font at the end of the "font" file

	# save and start mlterm

	# press CTRL+"right-click" on the mlterm window and choose the utf 
encoding. (turn antialiasing off) and press "Save & Exit"

	# you can now view arabic using mutt (or you should)

	# edit /etc/mlterm/key   and uncomment line

		# Control+backslash=EXT_KBD

by pressing CTRL+\ you can switch to arabic keyboard to type some arabic

Hope this helps.

Anmar
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> after I have tried to get mutt in UTF8 working I must write you again:
>
> This is my version of mutt which does officell support UTF8:
>
>   ____ ( 'mutt -v' ) ___________________________________________________
>  /
> |  Mutt 1.5.6i (2004-02-01)
> |  Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins und andere.
> |  Mutt übernimmt KEINERLEI GEWÄHRLEISTUNG. Starten Sie `mutt -vv', um
> |  weitere Details darüber zu erfahren. Mutt ist freie Software.
> |  Sie können es unter bestimmten Bedingungen weitergeben; starten Sie
> |  `mutt -vv' für weitere Details.
> |
> |  System: Linux 2.4.26-1-686 (i686) [using ncurses 5.2] [using libidn 0.4.1 (compiled with 0.4.1)]
> |  Einstellungen bei der Compilierung:
> |  -DOMAIN
> |  -DEBUG
> |  -HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE
> |  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
> |  +USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +IMAP_EDIT_THREADS  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  +USE_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  +USE_SASL2
> |  +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  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
> |  +ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +COMPRESSED  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR =20
> |  +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
> |  ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> |  SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> |  MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> |  PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
> |  SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
> |  EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> |  MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
> |  Um die Entwickler zu kontaktieren, schicken Sie bitte
> |  eine Nachricht (in englisch) an <mutt-dev at mutt dot org>.
> |  Um einen Bug zu melden, verwenden Sie bitte das Programm flea(1).
> |
> |  patch-1.5.3.rr.compressed.1
> |  patch-1.5.5.1.tt.compat.1-cl
> |  patch-1.5.5.1.nt.xtitles.3.ab.1
> |  patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
> |  patch-1.5.4.fw.maildir_inode_sort
> |  patch-1.3.23.1.ametzler.pgp_good_sign
> |  patch-1.5.1.cd.edit_threads.9.2
> |  patch-1.5.3.Md.gpg_status_fd
> |  patch-1.4.Md.gpg-agent
> |  patch-1.5.3.Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname
> |  081_nbrown.auth_imap_plain
> |  Md.use_debian_editor
> |  Md.muttbug
> |  patch-1.4.admcd.gnutlsbuild.53d
> |  patch-1.4.admcd.gnutls.59d
>  \______________________________________________________________________
>
>
> My setings are:
>
>   ____ ( '/home/michelle/.bash_profile' ) ______________________________
>  /
> |  export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> |  export LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
> |
> |  consolechars --font=LatArCyrHeb-16
> |  loadkeys --quiet -s fr-latin1
> |  # loadkeys --quiet -s arabic
> |
> |  unicode_start
>  \______________________________________________________________________
>
> Then I start 'mutt' on the console. 
>
> I have a franco-arabic keyboard, and made a script from which I can 
> select, wether I like to use the french or arabic version.
>
> There was a Tool which change it using <F12> but it does not work for me.
>
> Since I use mutt v 1.5.6i UNICODE does not more work...
> Unfortunatly now, where I need it urgently !
>
> Can anyone help me ?
>
> Have a nice week
> Michelle
>
>
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