Benjamin Slade schreef op wo 27-04-2022 om 18:22 [-0600]:
> The output of mu [ <https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/mu-1.6.10/> ] (and thus, by extension, mu4e in Emacs) does not correctly handle characters outside of a certain range (which confuses Emacs to no end). This behaviour occurs both in mu4e and when using mu on the commandline.
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> For instance, subject lines including the 🎉 emoji ("celebration") do not show the emoji, but rather a backslashed \360. Similar issues occur with, for instance, devanagari characters (Hindi etc.).
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> When using mu/mu4e on non-Guix systems, this issue does not occur. (I.e. both in mu4e and in mu on the commandline these characters are correctly displayed.)
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> Since mu depends on xapian, it's possible the issue could also be with Guix's xapian package.

Does installing glibc-locales + logging in and out again have an
effect?

Greetings,
Maxime.