On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 09:13:22AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 02:57:03PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have another question regarding 1.6.1 differences from 1.5.24. In
> > my index replies to message don't show their subject line correctly,
> > for example:-
> >
> > 18 r + 10-May-16 Jane Chevous ( 83) Reshapers
> > 19 + 10-May-16 Jane Chevous ( 179) M-b~T~TM-b~T~@>
> >
> > That M-b~T~TM-b~T~@> should be the ASCII graphics 'tree' to the next
> > message in the thread.
> >
> > I guess this is some sort of build configuration issue but I'd be
> > pleased for any pointers.
>
> It might be you didn't compile against a curses version with wide
> character support (libncursesw).
>
> https://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Charset has some info about this
> under "UTF-8 chars are displayed fine, but the screen is garbled".
>
That's almost certainly the problem:-
chris$ ldd `which mutt` | grep curses
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
(0x00007fd857668000)
Yes, it is! Thanks very much.
It took a while to work out that I had to uninstall libncurses5-dev
and install libncursesw5-dev, then rebuild mutt.
--
Chris Green
