From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 04:23:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A43F1065671 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail.irbisnet.ru (mail.irbisnet.ru [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:aa:203:baff:fe18:f4c1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA79C8FC30 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail.irbisnet.ru (yuri@mail.irbisnet.ru [IPv6:::1]) by mail.irbisnet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2I4Nh5S009416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:23:44 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by mail.irbisnet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2I4Nhln009415; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:23:43 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.irbisnet.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:23:43 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov To: Chad Perrin Message-ID: <20080318042342.GA8975@mail.irbisnet.ru> References: <20080317220353.GA1557@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080317220353.GA1557@demeter.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: junk in remote mutt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:23:49 -0000 On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's what I've > got. > > Since configuring my environment to use UTF-8, I've had a problem while > checking email on a server. I log into the server via SSH, then enter > the `mutt` command. As I page through the inbox, open and close emails, > et cetera, I get a bunch of junk on the screen -- characters from the > previous screen appearing on the current screen. I have to use Ctrl + L > to clear it up and return the appearance of the screen to the way it's > supposed to look. > > What can I do to eliminate this problem? I don't want to have to force a > screen redraw every time I switch between views, scroll down a page in > mutt, and so on. I also don't want to go back to a character set limited > to plain ol' ASCII (there's a reason I use rxvt-unicode instead of rxvt). > > -- > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] > Patrick J. LoPresti: "Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) > Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk > quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!" Don't see it here. If you are sure that mutt uses UTF-8 charset (ie, forced it with 'set charset="utf-8"'), make sure it's linked against ncursesw library (and not just ncurses) - need to use WITH_NCURSES_PORT on 6.2 and earlier or build it using WITH_SLANG. HTH, Yuri