From: Thomas Roessler Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:58:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a comment about the sample iconv-hook files. X-Git-Tag: mutt-1-3-16-rel~20 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed4b75d5fce03f3c7608f04000794e9fe986064d;p=mutt Add a comment about the sample iconv-hook files. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index d83b81ef..4b03348d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ run the ``configure'' script again. Please note that "VPATH" builds currently do _not_ work. + + Character set support ===================== @@ -198,12 +200,29 @@ on a system which does not have them, it is recommended that you install Bruno Haible's portable libiconv library, which you can obtain from: -ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ + ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ Even if your system does provide the iconv functions, you might want to install libiconv, as some systems provide only a very limited version of iconv. + +If you decide to use your system's iconv implementation, you may +need to tell mutt about implementation-defined names for some +character sets. Sample configuration files for various systems can +be found in the directory contrib/iconv/ in this source +distribution, and will be installed in the samples/iconv directory +as part of mutt's documentation. + +In order to use these sample configuration files, just put a line +like + + source /usr/local/doc/mutt/samples/iconv/iconv.osf1-4.0d.rc + +into your system's global Muttrc, which normally resides in /etc or +/usr/local/etc. + + If you really want to, you can configure Mutt --without-iconv, but there will then be no character set conversion.