On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 01:05:26PM +0000, Michael wrote > I can't recall what else you have eliminated as the cause of this > rendering problem. Have you checked: > > 1. VT console. > 2. Different terminal (urxvt, xterm, gnome terminal, konsole, etc.). > 3. Different DE/Window Manager.
A bit of digging. For text tty's (tty1, tty2, etc) I use solar24x32 as the font. On a text tty both mc and mutt work fine (line-drawing) natively without any hacks. They also work fine on urxvt without any hacks. Note that the ebuild that provides urxvt is called, wait for it, rxvt-unicode It looks like urxvt is designed from square 1 to handle unicode, and xterm is not. -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.