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Re: Mutt 1.5.14 on Freebsd Display Problem



On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 21:04:18 -0800, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> Paul Walker <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:23:28PM -0800, Ryan Phillips wrote:
>> 
> >> This problem didn't happen with 1.5.13.  If it makes a difference I'm
> >> using putty to ssh into the box.
>> 
>> I seem to remember having that problem when putty and the terminal had
>> different ideas about what encoding to use. I solved it by setting putty to
>> using UTF-8. Might be worth you trying the same, just in case...
>> 
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I have the same problem with iTerm on OSX
> connecting to the same Freebsd box.  
> 
> I narrowed down the problem with ncurses.  I had WITH_MUTT_NCURSES=yes
> set in my /etc/make.conf file.  Removing the line and letting mutt
> compile with the default slang library fixed the problem.

Was your ncurses port compiled with WITHOUT_WIDEC set? Or has it been
compiled on a 5.x-machine as wide-character support only works on 6.x?


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