Mutt + GNOME Terminal = occasional display garbling

[Seth Hasani]

<quote who="Shot - Piotr Szotkowski" on Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:39:27AM EST>

> 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.

Have you tried ":set charset = utf-8"? I dont have any issues here using
mutt with Gnome Terminal. Asian fonts work wonderfully for me, which is
surprising since I removed just about all non-english/latin font packages.
My $TERM=xterm and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 

> 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.
> 
> [1] Is it Mutt or mutt? Even mutt.org isn't consistent on this...

My guess is Mutt's the application name and mutt is the command name. Just
like Gnome Terminal is the app name and gnome-terminal is the command name.
I'd assume it's the same with whatever app. People refer to them as either.

Seth