Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao <marcelpaulo+l@gmail.com>]

Bill Marcum wrote on Dec, 26:

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> > I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to 
> > display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. 
> > The problems are:

> > 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude 
> >    to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking 
> >    glyphs.
> > 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running.

> Is your locale UTF-8 or ISO-8859-*?

ISO-8859-1. I got curious: why, Bill ?

Paulo