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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: unable to convert character set of...

2015-02-05 22:46:00
Andy wrote:

I recently upgraded to nmh-1.6 and now whenever I try to view
messages that have different character sets it refuses to display
the content.  Previously it would just dump the text to the terminal
and let my pager and terminal figure out what to do with the
characters, but now it refuses:

byte 1245mhshow: unable to convert character set of part 1.2 to
UTF-8, continuing...

part 1.2 text/plain 2638
part 2   text/plain 3257

mhlist -verbose should show the character set(s) of those parts,
if not ASCII.

Looking at the code now, I think that error message is misleading.
It looks like part 1.2 is UTF-8 and you're trying to display it as
something else, such as ASCII.  If your terminal can handle it,
can you try setting LANG to en_US.UTF-8?  That's not what you're
asking for, but it's the only way I know of to avoid the charset
conversion.

I looked at the man page for mhshow and it seems that I should be
able to use the following:

mhshow-charset-utf-8: '%s'

But that seems to have no effect.

It shouldn't with text/plain.

How can I make it just dump the characters to the screen as it did
before without changing LC_ALL settings just to get it to dump the
characters?

I don't think that you can.  What platform are you on?  I'm
wondering why you can't handle UTF-8.

David

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