Re: [gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

[Michael]

On Friday, 30 December 2022 13:29:30 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 01:05:26PM +0000, Michael wrote
>
> > I can't recall what else you have eliminated as the cause of this
> > rendering problem.  Have you checked:
> >
> > 1. VT console.
> > 2. Different terminal (urxvt, xterm, gnome terminal, konsole, etc.).
> > 3. Different DE/Window Manager.
>
>   A bit of digging.  For text tty's (tty1, tty2, etc) I use solar24x32
> as the font.  On a text tty both mc and mutt work fine (line-drawing)
> natively without any hacks.  They also work fine on urxvt without any
> hacks.  Note that the ebuild that provides urxvt is called, wait for it,
>
> rxvt-unicode
>
>   It looks like urxvt is designed from square 1 to handle unicode, and
> xterm is not.

OKie dOKie, it is a terminal rendering issue then.  I'm not on a PC with mutt 
right now, so can't confirm, but these are the xterm USE flags I use here:

~ $ equery u x11-terms/xterm
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for x11-terms/xterm-376:
 U I
 - - Xaw3d      : Add support for the 3d athena widget set
 + + openpty    : Use openpty() in preference to posix_openpt()
 - - sixel      : Enable sixel graphics support
 - - toolbar    : Enable the xterm toolbar to be built
 + + truetype   : Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
 + + unicode    : Add support for Unicode
 - - verify-sig : Verify upstream signatures on distfiles
 - - xinerama   : Add support for querying multi-monitor screen geometry 
through the Xinerama API

I rarely use xterm and can't recall how it behaves with mutt, so I'm not sure 
if the above flags would make any difference.  If xterm is your favourite 
terminal you may want to give these flags a spin.