Lost message body - was Re: [plug] File Synchronize - Open Source

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Jan 24 17:22:52 WST 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:43 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > > If I use mutt in xterm, all I see is boxes.  Mutt in gnome-terminal
> > > displays them correctly.
> > 
> > It should work fine in uxterm with the right locale set, too.
> 
> (I use a UTF8 locale so xterm == uxterm.)

That's what I thought too, but I've found that on my Sarge system at
work uxterm will display utf-8 correctly when xterm does not. Sounds
like I need to look into this more... perhaps at the time I noticed that
I hadn't yet set up en_AU.UTF-8 as the default locale.

> It seems to depend on the
> font I use.  The 6x13 on my laptop has two of the three glyphs, but
> the larger 9x15 font I use on my desktop has none of them.  Unlike
> gnome-terminal, xterm does not do font substitution:
> 
>         http://bugs.debian.org/219551

Good to know.

-- 
Craig Ringer




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