Hi!
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:00:54PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> I acquired xterm-117, which seems to support utf-8 at least to the
> extent that it looks right when I cat a utf-8 file to the terminal.
> However, if I run mutt in the xterm, with charset=utf-8, it doesn't
> look right:
Mutt assumes to have an 8-bit clean terminal for the best case, all
characters are sent as byte wide numbers to the terminal and supposed
to be displayed directly using the current font. With a utf-8 terminal
characters 128 and above are interpreted as utf-8 sequences, which
leads to unexpected results.
Currently it isn't possible to make mutt use more than 8-bit character
sets plus the few terminal graphic characters. The reason: The ncurses
library currently don't support this. First there has to be a usuable
utf-8 xterm implementation, then ncurses can be improved to handle
wide characters (ready at version 6?), and finally mutt can be changed
to be aware of this extension (it works with unicode internally already).
All this may take a year at least, I think.
Gero
