I can type accented characters into text OK, e.g.:-
áàéèê
but I don't know how to do it in Firefox when entering text into a textarea - how does one do it?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:49:16AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
I can type accented characters into text OK, e.g.:-
áàéèêbut I don't know how to do it in Firefox when entering text into a textarea - how does one do it?
I just realised I have a reasonable workaround at least, I can pop up vi to edit the textarea using the Mozex extension and (as I said) I know how to enter accented characters in vi.
However it would still be good to know how to do it directly in Firefox.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:49:16AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
I can type accented characters into text OK, e.g.:-
áàéèê
Not when you have the charset set incorrectly in your mail headers you can't.
You have:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859_1
You want:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
set charset="iso-8859-1"
in your .muttrc might do the trick.
J.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:12:46AM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:49:16AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
I can type accented characters into text OK, e.g.:-
áàéèêNot when you have the charset set incorrectly in your mail headers you can't.
Well I can type them and see them myself! :-) Not very useful to others I must admit.
You have:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859_1
You want:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
set charset="iso-8859-1"
in your .muttrc might do the trick.
OK, is it better now?
I blame having mutt on Solaris and Fedora at work, this one on FreeBSD and at home on Slackware. Keeping them all in step and working the same is occasionally a bit difficult.
Eur Ing Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
but I don't know how to do it in Firefox when entering text into a textarea - how does one do it?
I can't remember, but it works for me (well, Iceweasel because I prefer free software, but it should be near enough). I think GTK_IM_MODULE=xim in the environment and having a UTF-8 locale may be something to do with it.
Hope that helps,
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Eur Ing Chris Green -
Jonathan McDowell -
MJ Ray