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Re: Threads & Charset (UTF-8) on MacOS X



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
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