Re: thread indicator symbols in mutt

[Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:27:23PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Ron Peterson:
> > My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in
> > thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other
> > special characters instead.  What do I do to fix this?
> 
> Use another font.  I like:
> 
>   -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
> 
> xterm -fn -*-lucida... -e mutt &

I had a similar problem, and this line in .muttrc fixed it:

set ascii_chars=yes

    		   			Victor