CentOS - Dec 2007 - screen + mutt terminal issues.

Hi all,

I'm trying to fix a display issue when using mutt inside a screen session.

This issue came to my attention when the following posts hit my mailbox:

10723     M?rio Gamito                   [CentOS] Another question              
Wed, Dec 05, 2007  (  2.4K
10724     nate                           Re: [CentOS] Anyone using sendmail?    
Tue, Dec 04, 2007  (  4.6K)

The accent in Mario's name (post 10723 in my mailbox) seems to cause havok
with the
terminal emulation in mutt. I've experimented with the different terminal
emulations
(xterm, ansi, screen, linux, xterm-color etc) and found that:
	ansi = garbled screen.
	xterm = displays layout correctly, however highlight bars (in the index screen
                within mutt) only drawns a background colour when text is also
drawn.
	xterm-color = displayis an issue is shown when using the up/down arrows over
                      his posts. This corrupts the layout of the screen. usually
a blank
                      line is displayed below Mario's name.
	screen = same as xterm-color
	linux = same as xterm-color

Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this? Is this an issue with
screen or the
termcap or maybe even mutt?

-- 
Steven Haigh

Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

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core." -- Anon.

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:49:21PM +1100, Steven Haigh
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to fix a display issue when using mutt inside a screen
session.
> 
> This issue came to my attention when the following posts hit my mailbox:
> 
> 10723     M?rio Gamito                   [CentOS] Another question         
Wed, Dec 05, 2007  (  2.4K
> 10724     nate                           Re: [CentOS] Anyone using
sendmail?                                                     Tue, Dec 04, 2007 
(  4.6K)
> 
> The accent in Mario's name (post 10723 in my mailbox) seems to cause
havok with the
> terminal emulation in mutt. I've experimented with the different
terminal emulations
> (xterm, ansi, screen, linux, xterm-color etc) and found that:
> 	ansi = garbled screen.
> 	xterm = displays layout correctly, however highlight bars (in the index
screen
>                 within mutt) only drawns a background colour when text is
also drawn.
> 	xterm-color = displayis an issue is shown when using the up/down arrows
over
>                       his posts. This corrupts the layout of the screen.
usually a blank
>                       line is displayed below Mario's name.
> 	screen = same as xterm-color
> 	linux = same as xterm-color
> 
> Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this? Is this an issue with
screen or the
> termcap or maybe even mutt?
Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue.
This is
done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is
"ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)"

Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues.

-- 
Steven Haigh

Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

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