On Lu, 03 ian 11, 01:13:39, Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown. > > > > Specifically the problem is typically with the arrows which mutt uses to > > indicate the subject threads. Instead of lines and arrows the display > > uses the letter a with a circumflex, the 3/4 character, the copywrite > > symbol and another special symbol. > > > > In text occasionally odd symbols appear in the middle of words and in > > place of numbers or bullets in lists of items. > > I don't know the answer to where consolechars is hiding, but I wanted > to give you something else to think about. The problem you are > describing, where special characters, like line-drawing characters and > bullets, have been replaced with weird characters, is the classic > symptom of an application not supporting UTF-8. > > In this case, I think it is your terminal emulator which is not > supporting UTF-8. What terminal emulator are you using? Try running > mutt in xterm and see if the arrows improve. Except for the GUI type ones (lxterm, terminal, gnome-terminal, konsole, ...) AFAIK only xterm, rxvt-unicode and mlterm have decent UTF-8 support. Also, make sure the used font is correct. I would recommend Terminus (package xfont-terminus). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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