Some more info, hoping to get feedback this time (please tell me if I need to post anything else) 1) mutt 1.4i inside xterm on Red Hat 9 2) Setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 substitutes the "-", now disappeared character with an "a" with a "^" over it (sorry, can't remember its name) 3) the env command gives what follows: TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 WINDOWID=8388646 QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.1 USER=marco LS_COLORS= [snipped] MAIL=/var/spool/mail/marco PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/marco/bin INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc PWD=/home/marco LANG=en_US SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SHLVL=4 HOME=/home/marco LOGNAME=marco LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s DISPLAY=:0.0 G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 XAUTHORITY=/home/marco/.Xauthority _=/bin/env 4) mutt -v output: [marco@polaris marco]$ mutt -v Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29) Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.4.20-8 (i586) [using slang 10405] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID -USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_GSS +USE_SSL +USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR -HAVE_START_COLOR -HAVE_TYPEAHEAD -HAVE_BKGDSET -HAVE_CURS_SET -HAVE_META -HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Imagination is more important than knowledge -- Einstein -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ "The SUN TROPIC beauty farm reopens today: featuring exotic swimming pools, and, under the palm trees, **UVA lamps**" (unluckily for humankind, a REAL ad that I read in a real magazine) -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
