Mutt + GNOME Terminal = occasional display garbling

[Tom Marshall]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:39:27PM +0100, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The recent David Hart's thread suggested there are some
> Mutt[1] users on the list, so let's give my pet peeve a shot:
> 
> Mutt, when run inside UTF-8-locale GNOME Terminal and displaying emails
> with wrongly (or un-) declared character encodings, makes the GNOME
> Terminal display the whole Mutt interface wrongly. I'm not sure I can
> describe it if you haven't seen it yourselves, but the final effect
> is that unless I refresh the display (with ctrl-l) often and navigate
> a bit blindly, I can't read, say, ubuntu-users when, for example,
> there's Revant Nandgaonkar's email in the index list.
> 
> For example, when I go to my spam folder (full of badly encoded Korean
> spam), I have to use uxterm - otherwise I'd have to navigate the folder
> blindly. Given that uxterm works properly, my guess is that's a problem
> with GNOME Terminal not coping with malformed UTF-8.
> 
> Any solutions to this, or at least can
> anybody confirm I'm not seeing things?

I recall having these kinds of issues when I first started using a UTF-8
locale with mutt+rxvt.  Unfortunately, I don't recall the exact solution (or
if there really was one).  I am currently using rxvt-unicode for my terminal
and my spam folder does not corrupt the display.  But OTOH, I only have
about 10% of the spam that I used to get before installing my greylist
filter.  ;-)

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