Mutt and UTF8

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:39:34AM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote:
>> 
>> I have a slightly strange setup I guess. I run Mutt inside a screen
>> (as in the command screen(1)) inside a Gnome terminal. But I've also
>> tested it without screen in a Gnome terminal, and also in a regular
>> tty both with and without screen. In all cases, exactly the same
>> behaviour.
>> 
>> Now the weirdest thing: when I run it in xterm (with screen or
>> without) I don't have any problems at all. (In my WM menu (sawfish
>> with the Debian menu) I have two xterms one regular and one
>> "unicode", both work just fine.)
>> 
>
>The problem appears to be related to 'gnome-terminal'.  I'm running
>Fedora Core 3 at work, and experienced the very same problem with or
>without 'screen' involved (it's one of many things that FC3 broke over
>here).  Running 'mutt' from inside an 'xterm' works just fine though.
>At home, using warty I experience no problem either.  Here is the
>information about the packages causing the problem under Fedora, in
>case it is of any help:

It wouldn't surprise me if gnome-terminal was the culprit. However, I do
see the same behaviour in a regular linux console :(

>$ rpm -q gnome-terminal
>gnome-terminal-2.7.3-1
>
>$ rpm -q screen
>screen-4.0.2-5
>
>$ rpm -q mutt
>mutt-1.4.1-10

We don't have a lot in common here though:
gnome-terminal 2.9.2-0ubuntu1
screen 4.0.2-4.1ubunt
mutt 1.5.6-20040907

/M

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