unicode mutt

It turns out that in places like the Czech Republic, they actually use all the crazy accented characters that Americans are used to ignoring. You know, like “č”, “ů”, “ř”, etc. Anyhow, I finally got annoyed that I was just seeing “?” instead of “ö” (or whatever) and fixed the problem.

First:

$ xterm -u8 [other flags, etc...]

Next:

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.utf8

Finally:

$ grep charset .muttrc
  set charset="utf-8"

et voila! (Note the name in the “From:” header.)