On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote:
> The Mac OS X Terminal does not have much support for anything but
> vt100, so the mutt threading has to be set to with ascii_chars.  In
> the next release of OS X, 10.2, the terminal has UTF 8 support.  I
> don't know much about this, and the mutt manual says that threading by
> default uses ACS characters.  Are these two related in that the new
> Terminal will display the mutt threading correctly with ascii_chars
> set to no?

not really (ACS standards for alternate-character-set - which does not
apply to Unicode or UTF-8).  It's coincidental - mutt has hardcoded
UTF-8 strings for the line-drawing characters that correspond to the
vt100 alternate character set.

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