On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:55:51PM +0600, Andrey R. Urazov wrote:
> Sometimes I receive letters which contain undisplayable characters which
> affect my terminal state. After displaying such a message on the screen
> the terminal refuses to delete anything from the screen and this yields
> in lots of garbage on the display, because new information which is
> being displayed is written on top of the old. I know that Pine is
> capable of preventing such a damage by default, it outputs all dangerous
> characters as circumflexes (^^). Is it possible to do something like
> that with mutt?

it's probably a case where your given locale doesn't match the terminal
capabilities.  For instance, in the attached message you have a 0x84,
which if sent to xterm would tell it to scroll by one line.

(using mutt 1.25i I have no problem viewing your attachment)

> P.S. I'm attaching such a message to the letter. Beware. :)
> 
> 
> 
>                         Yours sincerely, Andrey Urazov
> -- 
> Don't relax!  It's only your tension that's holding you together.
> --
> Friday, November 09, 2001, 15:48:29 +0600 - Andrey R. Urazov (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 

> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 15:50:57 +0600
> From: "Andrey R. Urazov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Room BuR102
> Abay st. Astana, 473000
> Republic of Kazakhstan.
> 




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