Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]
Steven Haigh wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:06:25AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue. This is done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)" Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues. :-O Surely you mean changing Centos to use C or en_US only! :-D Nah. By default (at least on my installs!), CentOS will be set with declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8" This means that most other applications will probably work ok with UTF-8. PuTTY however doesn't default to UTF-8, which causes weird display corruption when using screen. On a side note, the Mac OSX terminal isn't affected. It handles UTF-8 by default. Hahaha. I never thought about doing it the other way. But I will now. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:06:25AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the >> issue. This is >> done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 >> (Latin-1, West Europe)" >> >> Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues. >> > > :-O > > Surely you mean changing Centos to use C or en_US only! > > :-D Nah. By default (at least on my installs!), CentOS will be set with declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8" This means that most other applications will probably work ok with UTF-8. PuTTY however doesn't default to UTF-8, which causes weird display corruption when using screen. On a side note, the Mac OSX terminal isn't affected. It handles UTF-8 by default. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "They have the internet on computers now." - Homer Simpson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]
Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue. This is done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)" Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues. :-O Surely you mean changing Centos to use C or en_US only! :-D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:49:21PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to fix a display issue when using mutt inside a screen session. > > This issue came to my attention when the following posts hit my mailbox: > > 10723 Mário Gamito [CentOS] Another question >Wed, Dec 05, 2007 ( 2.4K > 10724 nate Re: [CentOS] Anyone using sendmail? >Tue, Dec 04, 2007 ( 4.6K) > > The accent in Mario's name (post 10723 in my mailbox) seems to cause havok > with the > terminal emulation in mutt. I've experimented with the different terminal > emulations > (xterm, ansi, screen, linux, xterm-color etc) and found that: > ansi = garbled screen. > xterm = displays layout correctly, however highlight bars (in the index > screen > within mutt) only drawns a background colour when text is > also drawn. > xterm-color = displayis an issue is shown when using the up/down arrows > over > his posts. This corrupts the layout of the screen. > usually a blank > line is displayed below Mario's name. > screen = same as xterm-color > linux = same as xterm-color > > Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this? Is this an issue with > screen or the > termcap or maybe even mutt? Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue. This is done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)" Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "C" gains much of its vaunted efficiency by employing a very powerful pre-processor, normally referred to as a "programmer." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
