Re: How to get vim to display Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian? [Was: Feature or bug? dw oddities]

On 09.02.16 15:19, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> 2016-02-09 14:48 GMT+03:00 Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net>:
> > Thank you for the hints, Tony, but nothing tried so far is making any
> > difference. Vim still won't display Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian.
> >
> > But is this a clue? My immediate prior post, containing åæø, came back
> > from the list server with those three characters now displaying in vim
> > as -C3-A5-C3-A6-C3-B8, despite the header: "X-NotAscii: charset=utf-8".
> > (Again, s/-/==/g) In vim, encoding, fileencoding, and termencoding are
> > all utf-8.
> >
> >
> > Is our list server not sending utf-8, despite the header claim?
>
> It is sending a proper UTF-8. You must use a client which correctly
> decodes the message: you should see those equals signs if
> Content-Transfer-Encoding is [quoted-printable][1], but message body
> was not decoded.

OK, so after a post with e.g. Cyrillic characters is correctly displayed
by mutt in a utf-8_capable xterm, these high valued 8-bit characters
become unreadable when the post is opened in vim for composing a reply,
because the MUA only decodes for display. It does not alter the received
email.

...
> 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.

Erik

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