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
