mutt, ελληνικά, greeklish, OpenBSD and the Mac OS X Terminal

23 March 2005

mutt, ελληνικά, greeklish, OpenBSD and the Mac OS X Terminal

Teaching the dog fake greek

Just teached the mutt to autoconvert ISO-8859-7 Greek to "greeklish". On my Mac OS X PowerBook utf-8 works fine with Terminal.app and mutt, but when I use the mutt on my OpenBSD server (through ssh and Terminal.app) I get a mess. Now I can have all this transliterated to (fake, ugly, but working) greeklish. Read on...

The recipe so far consists of:

An example mailcap file with entries for text/plain encodings. From this I created 2 new lines in my mailcap file (~/.mutt/mailcap):

text/plain; gr2gr -l ; \
        test=test "`echo %{charset} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`" = iso-8859-7; \
        copiousoutput
text/plain; cat ;copiousoutput

These will pipe text/plain content with iso-8859-7 encoding through gr2gr. I also had to put the line:

auto_view text/plain

into my muttrc file.

Next was of course this program "gr2gr", which is a perl script I found mentioned on the hellenic-howto. Download link is: ftp://ftp.hri.org/pub/greek/programs/gr2gr.prl.

Result:

Subject: Greek                                                                  
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:55:31 +0200                                           
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2)                                                  
                                                                                
[-- Autoview using gr2gr -l --]                                                 
Ta ellhnika einai polu eukola!

Update: I'm now using my own python Greek to Greeklish converter, which does Unicode UTF-8 too

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Life in Athens (Greece) for a foreigner from the other side of the mountains. And with an interest in digital life and the feeling of change in a big city. Multilingual English - German - Greek.
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