FIXED [Was: How to get vim to display Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian?]

On 10.02.16 12:13, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Erik Christiansen
> <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > On 09.02.16 15:19, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> >> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email.
> >>
> >> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
> >
> > Thank you for your advice and the links. Both have crystallised the
> > problem. I apparently now need to either have postfix or procmail invoke
> > a quoted-printable to utf-8 decoder on all incoming emails, or have mutt
> > invoke the same when passing the quoted text to vim for composing a
> > reply.
>
> Ah, yes. Vim would presumably display a message in utf-8 with no
> trouble if its Content-Transfer-Encoding were 7bit (us-ascii
> compatible) or 8bit, but not quoted-printable (everything above
> U+007F, even Latin1 accented characters, would be replaced by two or
> more =xx groups, with xx being hex digits) and of course a message in
> base64 would be even less understandable. You could try pasting from
> the mail reader to Vim (using a different program or terminal if
> necessary to remember the "* X selection, since IIUC the xterm, unlike
> konsole, cannot access the "+ clipboard): that should keep everything
> as you see it. But I suppose it wouldn't copy the headers.

Yes, I was about to try to employ qprint to translate, but at the last
minute found that a clean utf-8 xterm environment fixes it. Initially,
xterm was the problem, because it's not utf-8. So I tried uxterm, after
all, it's in the manpages. That allowed mutt to display the QP, but
upset vim. I then made the mistake of trying "xterm -en UTF-8" _from_ a
uxterm. That also failed. But zapping the uxterms from .bashrc, and
invoking "xterm -en UTF-8" from an ordinary xterm, I've joined the
civilised world. Queue angel choirs, parting clouds, and sunbeams!

Thanks.

Erik

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