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

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:28:18AM -0500, Brent Cook wrote:
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Herv? Cauwelier wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Bob Nielsen a ?crit :
> >>   
> >>
> >>>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?
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>There is a known bug, AFAIK. One workaround is to call the reset 
> >>command. Oddly enough, this does not occur on the others VC.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >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).
> >
> >Bob Nielsen
> >
> > 
> >
> 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.

That works, thanks!  I put "alias mutt = 'LANG=en mutt'" and the 
equivalent for mc in my ~/.bash_profile.  I'm wondering if it would make 
sense to use a different locale for VC operations.