[clug] Terminal Line Drawing Character funnies (OS/X)

[Alex Satrapa]

On 13/09/2010, at 13:07 , steve jenkin wrote:

> This simple fault has been driving me crazy...
> Using 'mutt' locally in 'thread-view', I get rubbish displayed
> but ssh into a debian system and mutt shows the line drawing chars.

> 

mutt seems to be working for me here:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
TERM=xterm-color

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Configuration of mutt is as follows:

> 15:28 [0|2188]% mutt -v
> Mutt 1.4.2.3i (2007-05-26)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
> 
> System: Darwin 10.4.0 (i386) [using ncurses 5.7]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
> +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
> -USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL  
> +HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
> +HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
> +HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
> +HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
> +ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
> +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
> -ISPELL
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> PKGDATADIR="/opt/local/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/opt/local/etc"
> EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> -MIXMASTER
> To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev at mutt.org>.
> To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.


Alex