Mutt and UTF8

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Dec 12 10:54:49 CST 2004


On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 06:23:13PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> I have a slightly strange setup I guess. I run Mutt inside a screen (as
> in the command screen(1)) inside a Gnome terminal. But I've also tested
> it without screen in a Gnome terminal, and also in a regular tty both
> with and without screen. In all cases, exactly the same behaviour.

I believe you need "defutf8 on" in ~/.screenrc.  This should probably be
enabled automatically when using a UTF-8 locale.  A patch to do this would be
most welcome; a bug report about it would also be welcomed, but somewhat
less enthusiastically. :-)

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 - mdz



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