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Re: Mutt and Ubuntu



On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:02:51PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, 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?
> 
> from reading the email, it seems that his locale is set for UTF-8, but 
> mutt's using ncurses (not ncursesw).

Ahhhh... I'd forgotten about that distinction.  IIRC Fedora installs
ncursesw by default now, and that's what I'm accustomed to.  I'll
install ncursesw-dev and see if that fixes.

Thanks Thomas!

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