On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:50:31PM +0900, Henry Nelson quoth: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > symbols and everything. On my Linux boxes, mutt uses line-drawing > > characters within a uxterm, and everything is good and groovy. On my > > MacOS X boxes, however, if I try to use line-drawing characters within a > > uxterm, I get garbage instead, and am forced to set ascii_chars="yes" in > > The specifics are very different, but I had trouble displaying line-drawing > characters using the terminal emulator TeraTerm on a new install of WindowsXP > to connect to the NetBSD box running Mutt. I solved the problem by installing > the font "LETGOTHL.TTF" on the WindowsXP machine. > > From this experience, I might suggest checking that your terminal definitions > for "uxterm" are exactly the same on both the Linux box and the MacOS box. > The locales on the respective machines, and the fonts available for those > locales probably comes into play. Interesting... where would those terminal definitions be? I know both of them have an en_US.UTF-8 locale definition. > > Aside from a 'set ascii_chars="yes"' on the MacOS boxes, all systems > > are using the same configuration (which I can post if it would > > help). > > I'd be interested in knowing which curses library (slang, ncurses, ncursesw > or native curses) and version you used to build the respective Mutt binaries. The one on OSX is compiled against ncurses 5.3-20031018 (from fink---which doesn't seem to have a version of ncursesw), and libiconv 1.9.2-11. The one on Debian is compiled against ncursesw5 5.4-4. > (It has recently been brought to my attention that the differences I have > with nvi, built with ncursesw, and Mutt, built with slang, in displaying > wide characters possibly is due to the different curses libraries used to > build them.) Seems understandable. Perhaps it's an ncursesw thing? (that w seems quite important all of a sudden) ~Kyle -- A great many people think they are thinking when they are acutally rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
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