331329 – mail-client/mutt should have a slang USE flag

Bug 331329 - mail-client/mutt should have a slang USE flag

Summary: mail-client/mutt should have a slang USE flag

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2010-08-05 15:28 UTC by Alexandru Scvortov
Modified:	2010-08-05 22:29 UTC (History)
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Description Alexandru Scvortov 2010-08-05 15:28:24 UTC

The mutt in portage uses ncurses by default.  This is enabled by passing the --with-curses flag to ./configure.  An alternative would be to use slang (enabled by --with-slang).

This is a problem for people who use Konsole (which seems to muck up special characters when the terminal encoding and LC_ALL are both set to utf-8).

Using slang instead of curses solves the problem for me.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Alexandru Scvortov 2010-08-05 22:29:43 UTC

Never mind.  Konsole still broken displaying utf-8 special chars with slang.