On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:54:50PM +0900, TAKAHASHI Tamotsu wrote:
> If a whole line is output at once (as by "more"), it will
> be shown correctly. But ncurses doesn't always updates
> every whole line. For example, if mutt tries to show "abcdef"
> on a line where previously contains "abbbbb", ncurses will
> process only "cdef". That's good for ASCII, but it doesn't
> work for UTF-8 because UTF-8 has "state".
>
> (Maybe you can fix the garbled screen on mutt with "Ctrl-L".
> Because "Ctrl-L" button forces mutt to update full-screen.)
I know about Ctrl-L, but it doesn't help at all.
It's something else.
> This is just an example. Ncurses 5.2 has many problems with
> UTF-8. So I am not sure that's _the_ problem you are seeing.
> Anyway you should use newer ncurses for UTF-8.
Thanks for all your explanations.
Best regards,
ZP
