Hiya folks, Maybe someone can help me with this question. I'm a long time mutt user. However in recent years, I have been a member of an increasing number of mail lists. And an increasing number of mail list users are starting to use special characters in their emails that my terminal is not understanding correctly. When it doesn't understand the character correctly, it starts to interfere with the repaints when I scroll around through messages or through the indexes. As an example, I believe it was this list where there was recently a discussion regarding Core Duo which included a fancy symbol for (tm) in the subject line. This thread was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak and I'm now an unhappy Thunderbird user as opposed to a happy mutt user. So. Clearly I have something set incorrectly so that Mutt (and/or the terminal I am using) do not understand the special characters. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find the answer as to how to fix this so that I can ditch Thunderbird and go back to Mutt? Thanks for your time. -- -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave at xdroop.com
David Mackintosh wrote:> Hiya folks, > So. Clearly I have something set incorrectly so that Mutt (and/or the > terminal I am using) do not understand the special characters. Can > anyone point me in the right direction to find the answer as to how to > fix this so that I can ditch Thunderbird and go back to Mutt?It works for me with "TERM=gnome mutt". Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061030/43a3b917/attachment-0002.sig>
Ralph Angenendt wrote:> David Mackintosh wrote: >> Hiya folks, >> So. Clearly I have something set incorrectly so that Mutt (and/or the >> terminal I am using) do not understand the special characters. Can >> anyone point me in the right direction to find the answer as to how to >> fix this so that I can ditch Thunderbird and go back to Mutt? > > It works for me with "TERM=gnome mutt". >Doesn't work. I probably should have mentioned that I see this problem in these terminals: - putty on windows - xterm on linux - gnome-terminal on linux - multi-gnome-terminal on linux - linux on linux (ie logged into the console) Doing an export TERM=vt100 before invoking mutt sometimes, but not always, can make some of these problems go away (but not this one). This is an example of what I am seeing: http://www.xdroop.com/img/mutt-terminal-drippings.jpg -- -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave at xdroop.com