On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:14:21PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
 > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:59:51PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote:
 > > My muttrc sets editor to "joe".
 > > 
 > > Mutt's built-in pager does not seem to understand utf-8.
 > > 
 > > Example copied from a gnu-emacs mailing list:
 > > 
 > > The first time is characterized with this system of equations:             
 > >                                                                 
 > >                                                                            
 > >                                                                 
 > >   t₁ =  65536×h₁ + l₁                                                      
 > >                                                                 
 > >   0 ≤ h₁ < 65536                                                           
 > >                                                                 
 > >   0 ≤ l₁ < 65536                                                           
 > >                                                                 
 > >                                                                            
 > >                                                                 
 > > The second time with this similar system:                                  
 > >                                                                 
 > >                                                                            
 > >                                                                 
 > >   t₂ =  65536×h₂ + l₂                                                      
 > >                                                                 
 > >   0 ≤ h₂ < 65536                                                           
 > >                                                                 
 > >   0 ≤ l₂ < 65536
 > > 
 > > Is this right?
 > > 
 >  It seems well-formed, but using 'uncommon' glyphs.  In a tty I get
 > a lot of '?' (no glyph for this codepoint - there are only 512
 > available at most for console fonts), in a term I can see that they
 > are less-than-or-equal and small/subscript '1' and '2'.  Also a *lot*
 > of whitespace at the end of most lines! (I highlight redundant
 > whitespace in vim :)

I assume if you paste the equations with a mouse to emacs, the
subscripts would be displayed correctly.
    
 >  What I can't guess is what *you* are seeing which causes you to
 > query it ?

I see character-size rectangles in place of the subscripts.
Everything else is okay.
 
 >  Also, I'm using 1.5.21, you seem to be using 1.4 - no idea if that
 > makes a difference.

mutt-1.4.2.3_5                      <   needs updating (port has 1.4.2.3_6)

That's all I could do on this FreeBSD system.

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