Re: mutt on a Commodore terminal program (Re: CBM720 heads up)

From: william degnan <billdegnan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 09:49:45 -0500
Message-ID: <CABGJBueNHes2EAtpZ+S7moLTvJxKC-KBOdw6SwMntHXQOYX7xw@mail.gmail.com>
I was able to make some progress by editing my .muttrc file.  mutt works
better using a Zenith Z-19 terminal than the few emulator choices available
for the Apple /// computer.  Part of the problem lies with the Apple ///.
I may also have to play around with the ttyUSB0 port on my linux box, there
may be some things I can do with characters there.  There is a lot about
how to tunnel FROM a Raspberry Pi, but not as much about how to make
INBOUND connections via a terminal.  So I am making it up as I go.

I am expecting the same "fun" with the B-128.

My goal is to have a general purpose way to connect machines that can run
terminal software directly to the Internet via the Raspberry Pi.  Twitter
works, general linux commands work somewhat well, but there are always a
few weird characters to contend with in the display.  I am using Rasbian
(Debian).

b

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:20:10AM -0500, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
>> Next I plan to work on the B-128 I will let you know if I can locate and
>> use a terminal program successfully and post on my site in D0 format.  It's
>> hard to find a good terminal program that has flexibility to handle the
>> characters generated by mutt.  I am working on a general purpose .muttrc
>> file.  Still work to do!
>>
>
> That is going to be a lot of work if you have configured your mutt to use
> UTF-8, like I did several years ago (using mutt,vim and msmtp and a UTF-8
> compatible terminal emulator on X11).
>
> The only character-set related parameter in my .muttrc seems to be
>
> set config_charset="utf-8"
>
> It look like the rest is automatically deduced from LANG=fi_FI.utf8 or
> LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8. You could execute the "locale" command in GNU/Linux
> to see the defaults (POSIX in my case). If I unset the two above mentioned
> variables, mutt will convert non-ASCII characters to question marks.
>
> Hmm, even with the POSIX locale, mutt is using some Digital VT100 or VT220
> line-art characters when displaying email subjects in the threaded view ("o
> t" or "O t"). Those few non-ASCII characters used by mutt should have
> direct PETSCII equivalents.
>
>         Marko
>
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