I've started getting ^@^@> in my xterms w/mutt

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:45:48AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:19:09AM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > ...
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > Thanks for your responses, but by setting the environment variables that you
> > are using I'm still not getting the special chars I used to get (something
> > that looks like a modified capital 'L' and a long dash (I think).
> 
> IIRC, that one is a Polish character -- as in the first letter of
> "??ukasiewicz" (the surname of the guy credited for "Polish notation").
> 
> One other -- possibly relevant -- thing I've noted is that with my
> default xterm font (6x10), I do *not* get Chinese & Arabic characters,
> but if I change the xterm (Ctl+Right button) to a larger font, they
> show up OK.
> 
> > Strangely, this behavior began suddenly on the several of my systems that I
> > access mutt via an xterm at the same time. Two of them I had updated recently
> > but the third hasn't been updated since October.
> > 
> Hmm.. How independent are these systems from one another?  In
> particular, do you arrange to either share or sync your home directory
> among them?
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> > .....
> 
> I hope this helps....
> 
> Peace,
> david
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I just tried some changes to my .muttrc file and by adding this setting:

set     ascii_chars     # use ASCII instead of ACS chars for threads

I now get these characters displayed for thread continuations for example
from the frebsd-ports mail:

14640 O   Jan 02 Roger Marquis   (  26) DEFAULT_VERSIONS conflicts
14641 O   Jan 02 Adam Weinberger (  38) `->
14642 O   Jan 02 Roger Marquis   (  19)   `->
14643 Os  Jan 03 Mathieu Arnold  (  70)     `->

Which isn't as good as what I was previously getting, but better than the ^@
ones before that looked like this:

14640 O   Jan 02 Roger Marquis   (  26) DEFAULT_VERSIONS conflicts
14641 O   Jan 02 Adam Weinberger (  38) ^@^@>
  642 O   Jan 02 Roger Marquis   (  19)   ^@^@>
  643 Os  Jan 03 Mathieu Arnold  (  70)     ^@^@>


I still have no idea what changed to cause this...sigh...

Thanks,
Bob

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