Re: mutt and ncursesw

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:50:58PM +0200, Jari P.T. Alhonen wrote:
> >   Last time I checked, mutt compiled against the ordinary ncurses
> > (as opposed to ncursesw) does NOT work for characters with East
> > Asian width of 'full'. You may get an impression that it works
> > because you use it only for chars. with East Asian width of 'half'.
> > For CJK, compiling mutt against 'ncursesw' is a must.
> 
> mutt-utf8 seems to contain the mutt binary and nothing else (apart from
> a changelog).

Of course; mutt-utf8 in Debian is a diversion.

> And it certainly does work with CJK.

(because it's compiled against ncursesw)

Why mutt-utf8 is a separate package instead of the default in Debian, I
have no idea.  It used to make sense, when mutt-utf8 was compiled
against a buggy Slang hack, but that's no longer the case; it's now
just as functional as the main binary.  (I don't feel like spending
the time trying to convince the Mutt maintainer to change this, though.) 

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