>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Paul> I think that *mutt* is definitely broken in this regard,
    Paul> because *no* other console program i know (e.g. mc or pine)
    Paul> breaks like this using the very same libc. 

It's not just mutt.  GTK+ has the same problem.  The solution is to
get LANG set to at least en_US by default for everyone, as LANG=C is
just not useful any more.

Owen Taylor, the GTK+ developer, has confirmed that this is a libc6
2.2 issue.  It just drops high ASCII characters for LANG=C now.

Ben

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