Re: Mutt and Ubuntu
On 25-08-2008 14:54:08 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, August 25 at 03:07 PM, quoth Derek Martin:
>> I was trying to compile mutt from the latest sources on my work
>> desktop, which is running, I believe, the latest Ubuntu release. What
>> I found is, if I compile against ncurses, the arrows which show thread
>> relationships are drawn as a series of off ASCII characters, like so:
>>
>> T~T�T~@>RE:
>> �T~T�T~@>
>>
>> If I compile against slang, it works as expected.
>
> Interesting... what terminal are you using, and what's your TERM
> variable set to? What version of ncurses-dev do you have installed?
>
>> Also, Ubuntu's package (based on Mutt 1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11)) is
>> compiled against ncurses, and that works fine (though I think it had a
>> weird interaction with some environment variable, which I fixed by
>> unsetting the variable).
>
> VERY interesting! Perhaps their package has some unique patch applied?
I see exactly the same on Interix. It is caused by
set charset="utf-8"
which is a mismatch with the current locale (POSIX).
I guess the same holds for you, and is not really an ncurses/mutt issue
in that case.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level