Hebrew subject text in mutt

Hebrew subject text in mutt

Rabin Yasharzadehe rabin at rabin.io
Mon Jan 5 14:22:29 IST 2015


You can try and use mlterm.

--
Rabin

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Alan Yaniger <alan at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Linux-IL members,
>
> I'm using bidiv to read Hebrew in mutt.
>
> It works ok with reading Hebrew messages, but not when reading the
> subject headers, which still show the Hebrew backwards.
>
> So I wrote the following script caled "bidi_index" to enable reading of
> Hebrew in the subjects:
>
> echo $@ > /tmp/index.out && bidiv /tmp/index.out
>
> and I added to .muttrc the following:
>
> set index_format = "/home/alan/.mutt/bidi_index %D %-15.15L   %s (%Z) |"
>
> (I tried piping the text directly to bidiv, but I got an error, so I write
> to a temp file, and I have my script read the temp file.)
>
> Mutt shows the Hebrew properly, but it creates a new problem. The minimum
> length for the sender's name no longer works. My setting is for a minimum
> length of 15 chars, as in the index_format setting I quoted above, but if
> the name is less than 15 chars, mutt does not pad the rest of the 15 chars
> with blanks.
>
> This problem doesn't exist if I don't pipe to my script.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix with this problem, or does anyone have an
> alternative way of displaying Hebrew in mutt (which you've checked gets
> around this problem)?
>
> I'm using Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) on a gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 12.04,
> with LC_ALL="en_US.utf8".
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
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> Alan Yaniger
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>
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