On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:54:52PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:23:33AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> > On 2002-02-16 22:11:04, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > > Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic
> > > characters, like the default X fixed font).
> >
> > I switched to -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1
> > and unchecked the "Enable multibyte support" in gnome-terminal which
> > gave me back the missing non-ascii chars but the threaded overview is
> > still somewhat broke. Am I correct in assuming that unicode and mutt
> > don't quite go along?
>
> It may be mutt doesn't really support unicode chars, or it may be that
> the gnome-terminal doesn't really support it. I tend to think that
> there's a good chance of gnome-terminal being the culprit, since I
> know that most GNOME programs do not handle multibyte or unicode
> characters (this is corrected with the new libes, but few apps are
> ported yet). Could also be mutt doesn't handle the characters
> correctly as well.
>
> You might experiment with an 8859-? encoding, since they're guaranteed
> to only be eight bit wide characters. This stuff is a bit of a mess,
> but the future looks pretty good with UTF-8. It'll just be a while
> 'til it's widely supported.
>
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
>
btw, im using rxvt. and enabled utf8.. i think utf-8 is the culprit. how
should i disable it?
>
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