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Re: Mutt and Ubuntu



Hello Fabian,

Could you please let me know how I can unsubscribe from the email alias 
mutt-dev@xxxxxxxxx Look forward to hear from you.

Thank you 
Namal

---- Fabian Groffen <grobian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 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