UTF-8 doesn't display all characters correctly in VC

[Brent Cook]

Bob Nielsen wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:
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>>Bob Nielsen a écrit :
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>>>I get everything displayed correctly in a X-terminal, but when using a 
>>>virtual console, anything but text is all messed up.  This is 
>>>particularly annoying with mutt and mc is practically unusable.  Is 
>>>there something I need to change in my configuration?
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>>There is a known bug, AFAIK. One workaround is to call the reset 
>>command. Oddly enough, this does not occur on the others VC.
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>Thanks for the information.  Doing a reset works with mc, but mutt still 
>shows the --> for threads as weird characters.  In any case mc is now 
>workable.  Switching to another VC and back restored the problem, 
>however (and another reset fixed it again).
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>Bob Nielsen
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I start mutt with 'LANG=en mutt', which resolves the problem. The issue 
AFAIK is that the VC doesn't have the right font to support all of the 
Unicode characters used in the UTF-8 setting.