Mutt + GNOME Terminal = occasional display garbling

[Todd Slater]

On 12/3/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> wrote:

> Mutt, when run inside UTF-8-locale GNOME Terminal and displaying emails
> with wrongly (or un-) declared character encodings, makes the GNOME
> Terminal display the whole Mutt interface wrongly. I'm not sure I can
> describe it if you haven't seen it yourselves, but the final effect
> is that unless I refresh the display (with ctrl-l) often and navigate
> a bit blindly, I can't read, say, ubuntu-users when, for example,
> there's Revant Nandgaonkar's email in the index list.
>
> For example, when I go to my spam folder (full of badly encoded Korean
> spam), I have to use uxterm - otherwise I'd have to navigate the folder
> blindly. Given that uxterm works properly, my guess is that's a problem
> with GNOME Terminal not coping with malformed UTF-8.
>
> Any solutions to this, or at least can
> anybody confirm I'm not seeing things?

I had this problem and I can't recall the fix, but I *think* it was a
TERM setting. echo  $TERM for me returns rxvt. This was the thread
that helped: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.mutt-users/browse_thread/thread/c96ae404d8f12c5f/b2db8795d40b3bb6

If nothing else, you'll find that "screen redraw" is a good search term.

Todd