Hebrew subject text in mutt

[Alan Yaniger]

Hi Rabin,

I've used and tried mlterm, and there's no difference. If you have
checked that this gets around the problem, please let me know, and we
can compare configurations.

Alan

On 05/01/15 14:22, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:
> 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
Tk Open Systems, Ltd
Telephone: 0546-841-481
Skype: alanyaniger
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