On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:49:21PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to fix a display issue when using mutt inside a screen session. > > This issue came to my attention when the following posts hit my mailbox: > > 10723 Mário Gamito [CentOS] Another question Wed, Dec 05, 2007 ( 2.4K > 10724 nate Re: [CentOS] Anyone using sendmail? Tue, Dec 04, 2007 ( 4.6K) > > The accent in Mario's name (post 10723 in my mailbox) seems to cause havok with the > terminal emulation in mutt. I've experimented with the different terminal emulations > (xterm, ansi, screen, linux, xterm-color etc) and found that: > ansi = garbled screen. > xterm = displays layout correctly, however highlight bars (in the index screen > within mutt) only drawns a background colour when text is also drawn. > xterm-color = displayis an issue is shown when using the up/down arrows over > his posts. This corrupts the layout of the screen. usually a blank > line is displayed below Mario's name. > screen = same as xterm-color > linux = same as xterm-color > > Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this? Is this an issue with screen or the > termcap or maybe even mutt? Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue. This is done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)" Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues. -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz at crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "C" gains much of its vaunted efficiency by employing a very powerful pre-processor, normally referred to as a "programmer."