I'd like to be able to see emoji characters properly in mutt, but e.g. 💗 shows up as ^J in mutt's pager. Running
:set pager=view and re-opening the message displays the character correctly with vim.
The email in question is PGP encrypted, but I think I'd get the same with unencrypted email (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mail.mutt/50_MpyYkXR4).
I also found this post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23526353/how-to-get-ncurses-to-output-astral-plane-unicode-characters), which explains a possible problem I'm running into, but as I said vim displays the characters fine in the same terminal window. Moreover I am using glibc 2.19, and I don't see how these two applications could be using different glibc versions on the same system.
Is there a way to get mutt's built-in pager to display these correctly?
EDIT: so I forgot to include anything at all relevant other than 'mutt' and 'vim'... I am running Debian stable with the mutt-patched package.
$ uname -r 3.16.0-4-amd64 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) Release: 8.0 Codename: jessie $ mutt -v Mutt 1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64) ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20140913 (compiled with 5.9) libidn: 1.29 (compiled with 1.29) hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.48 Compiler: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.9.2-4' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.9 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.9 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --with-arch-32=i586 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-4) Configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc' '--with-mailpath=/var/mail' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-compressed' '--enable-debug' '--enable-fcntl' '--enable-hcache' '--enable-gpgme' '--enable-imap' '--enable-smtp' '--enable-pop' '--with-curses' '--with-gnutls' '--with-gss' '--with-idn' '--with-mixmaster' '--with-sasl' '--without-gdbm' '--without-bdb' '--without-qdbm' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--enable-nntp' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/qdbm' Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_NNTP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. misc/am-maintainer-mode.patch features/ifdef.patch features/xtitles.patch features/trash-folder.patch features/purge-message.patch features/imap_fast_trash.patch features/sensible_browser_position.patch features-old/patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime.patch features/compressed-folders.patch features/compressed-folders.debian.patch debian-specific/Muttrc.patch debian-specific/Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname.patch debian-specific/use_usr_bin_editor.patch debian-specific/correct_docdir_in_man_page.patch debian-specific/dont_document_not_present_features.patch debian-specific/document_debian_defaults.patch debian-specific/assumed_charset-compat.patch debian-specific/467432-write_bcc.patch debian-specific/566076-build_doc_adjustments.patch misc/define-pgp_getkeys_command.patch misc/gpg.rc-paths.patch misc/smime.rc.patch misc/fix-configure-test-operator.patch upstream/531430-imapuser.patch upstream/543467-thread-segfault.patch upstream/542817-smimekeys-tmpdir.patch upstream/548577-gpgme-1.2.patch upstream/553321-ansi-escape-segfault.patch upstream/547980-smime_keys-chaining.patch upstream/528233-readonly-open.patch upstream/228671-pipe-mime.patch upstream/383769-score-match.patch upstream/603288-split-fetches.patch upstream/611410-no-implicit_autoview-for-text-html.patch upstream/path_max.patch translations/update_german_translation.patch upstream/771125-CVE-2014-9116-jessie.patch __separator__mutt.org.patch mutt-patched/sidebar.patch mutt-patched/sidebar-dotpathsep.patch mutt-patched/sidebar-utf8.patch mutt-patched/multiple-fcc.patch mutt-patched/sidebar-newonly.patch mutt-patched/sidebar-delimnullwide.patch mutt-patched/sidebar-compose.patch mutt-patched/nntp.patch $ aptitude show libc6 Package: libc6 State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: same Version: 2.19-18 ... A sample email:
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:12:41 +0100 From: <email 0> To: <email 1> Subject: hello Message-ID: <20150602161241.GA3079@hostname> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-TUID: KCe+SAkIDEzH hello 💕 💕💗 꾷⚡ In mutt I see:
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:12:41 +0100 From: <email 0> To: <email 1> Subject: hello MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-TUID: KCe+SAkIDEzH hello M-} ê¾·âš¡ I was expecting the raw email to be base64-encoded (because both accounts are gmail and the message contains non-ASCII characters), but it is the same. It also appears that no characters were harmed in transit.
Content-Encoding, remove all headers with personal information)? The problem may be related to how the emoji are encoded. Which version of mutt are you using?mutt -Q charset.