Re: mutt crashes on utf-8 encoded headers

["Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:43:30AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > > Current ncurses doesn't deal with multibyte characters, so the cursor
> > > position becomes desynchronized.
> >
> > There are enough multibyte calls implemented in ncursesw to make this
> > work.  (addstr is not one of them - but I don't see that the OP was using
> > ncursesw anyway).
>
> > I don't believe that anyone tried making it work with ncurses first.
>
> There are 66 addstr() calls in Mutt, and I don't know what other functions

...and it's trivial to redefine it with a wrapper.

my point: the number of people who actually follow up with proposed
patches I can count on one hand - while I've lost track of the people who
stand around waiting for someone else to do the work.

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