On 02Jun15 08:44 -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > This worked. Thank you so much for your help with this. All I had to > do was install libncursesw5-dev and reconfigure mutt and it worked. I > did not have to chance any configure flag.
I am happy to hear that. My understanding is that the configure script checks first for ncurses and afterwards for ncursesw. Thus, it will prefer the use of ncursesw over ncurses. > I originally read this: > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Charset > which was helpful (although not very structured), and it mentions > something about about ncurses with wide char support, but I did not > try it because it is listed under > "UTF-8 chars are displayed fine, but the screen is garbled" > which I don't think described my problem. Also, I did not need to > specify "--enable-widec". That configure switch is not available in my branch. > Please let me know if an update is needed to that page and I will make > an account and attempt a change. However, since I do not know anything > about this topic deeply I am hesitant to do anything without further > confirmation. I guess the wiki page is worth updating, with noting the version of mutt. But, I am just a simple mutt user, so I don't feel to en- or even discourage you doing so ;-) Cheers, -- Bastian
