Mutt + GNOME Terminal = occasional display garbling

[David Hart]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:39:27PM +0100, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> 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 used Mutt with Gnome Terminal on both Warty and Hoary (and now
Breezy since the weekend).  I couldn't read some of those Korean
fonts but I never had a garbled screen that would stop me navigating.

I've just checked my Mutt config and I have:

    set charset="iso-8859-1"

and in the environment (if it makes any difference, as despite having
used Linux for several years I'm quite ignorant about language settings,
that and fonts):

    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

What would be an appropriate setting for an English speaking person in
the UK?

> [1] Is it Mutt or mutt? Even mutt.org isn't consistent on this...

I don't think it really matters as long as people can understand what
you mean ;)

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>