Arabic mutt support

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

For the few that had complained about Arabic mutt support (with UTF-8);
here is what you need to do,

 - Compile mutt-1.4+ with UTF-8 support (if that doesn't work for you
   out of the box, try the --enable-locales-fix and --without-wc-funcs
   options; read the INSTALL file for further details)

 - Set a UTF-8 locale with either of these sample settings,

    % unsetenv LC_ALL
    % setenv   LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8
      -or-
    % setenv   LC_ALL   en_US.UTF-8

   If you don't have a UTF-8 locale (ie. 'locale -a | grep -i utf'
   produces nothing), look into the 'localedef' command (either
   get 'glibc-2.2+' or do it yourself -- google is your friend :-)

 - Make sure that the message you are trying to read (ie. in your
   mbox file) is with "Content-Type" or "charset=utf-8"

 - Lastly, and this goes without saying, make sure you invoke and
   use mutt within mlterm :-)

 - You should now be able to do everything you are used to in terms
   of email using Arabic UTF-8.

As noted on previous posts, any application that supports UTF-8 will
support Arabic on mlterm (if you find something cool you can do that
might benefit others on the list, make sure to share)

  http://www.mutt.org
  http://mlterm.sf.net

Enjoy & Salam...

 - Nadim


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