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mutt-utf8

Hi,
the new mutt is out since November 30th. And
http://www.mutt.org/changes.html says the following:

(which probably means that its now an utf8-enabled
 application", eh ?! ;-) ... )

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Character set support
---------------------

- Mutt now uses the iconv interface for character set conversions.
  This means that you need either a very modern libc, or Bruno
  Haible's libiconv, which is available from
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>.

- With sufficiently recent versions of ncurses and slang, mutt works
  properly in utf-8 locales.

- On sufficiently modern systems, the $charset variable's value is
  automatically derived from the locale you use.  (Note, however,
  that manually setting it to a value which is compatible with your
  locale doesn't do any harm.)

- $send_charset is a colon-separated list of character sets now,
  defaulting to us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8.

- charset-hook defines aliases for character sets encountered in
  messages (say, someone tags his messages with latin15 when he
  means iso-8859-15), iconv-hook defines local names for character
  sets (for systems which don't know about MIME names; see
  contrib/iconv for sample configuration snippets).

- The change-charset function is gone.  Use edit-type (C-e on the
  compose menu) instead.

- The recode-attachment function is gone.

</cite>

cheers
Oliver

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