mutt is set up to sort mails by threads. Mails which are replies to an other mail get sorted below the other mail and prefixed with "└─>". When you renamed /etc/Muttrc mutt used the default for sorting mail which is sort by date. The "ââ>" is a "└─>" encoded in UTF-8. You see this if your terminal isn't in UTF-8 mode. This also explains why it worked after you changed your locale to ISO-8859-1.
-- Mutt Locale Issue https://launchpad.net/bugs/55697 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
