On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:42:39AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:09:21PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > > 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. > > In a terminal emulator window, this usually means that the font you're > using has no glyph for the character (though, I believe as another > poster mentioned, on the console you'll see question marks instead). > Try using a more comlete font for whatever terminal you're using Mutt > in. You're using xterm, I bet? There's a mostly-complete Unicode > font maintained by the GNU people... Try that.
Yes, mutt is running in xterm. The trouble is only in the pager where all subscripts are replaced by character-size rectangles. If I reply to the message I am in "joe" and everything is fine. That means I _have_got_ the glyphs, haven't I? > > > 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. > > You should probably upgrade to 1.5.21, it has a lot of bug fixes and > enhancements over the 1.4 series. You can always compile it from > source... I do always compile. But the ports tree which is up-to-date has only 1.4.2.3_6 . Not sure whether 1.5.21 will compile for me. Thanks to all of you, Harald
