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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
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Subject: Re: I've started getting ^@^@> in my xterms w/mutt
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Hi!

> I recently updated my system (base OS and ports) that I read mail on using
> mutt (accessed via an xterm on a separate system) and am now seeing this sort
> of character string ^@^@> rather than the much more user friently characters I
> used to get.
> 
> Anyone know what I can do to get back the more readable stuff? Is there some
> setting that I need to perform?

I had the same problem. Since then I use the SLANG option instead of NCURSES
to build mutt.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208659

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