Re: [cxterm-devel] fonts screwed up

[<hin...@ya...>]

BTW, there is actually no need to reply to me, as I am
on cxterm-devel list. I tend to CC that list, as it
gets to be archived for future (and I do get a copy 
of my own message back as a result). 

 --- Jun Sun <js...@ju...> wrote: > 
> Hi, Hin-Tak,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
> 
> I found more about the problem now.  Since I am not
> familiar
> with X font / Chinese at all, I am posting it here
> and hopeful
> you can tell me what is wrong.
> 
> 1. the problem shows up initially with mutt, an
> email client.  BTW, I notice 
>    that mail has a header "X-MIME-Autoconverted:
> from quoted-printable to 
>    8bit by gateway.junsun.net id".  Not sure if it
> matters.

It probably does, but I don't know mutt at all to
tell.

> 
> 2. If I save the email, and then do 'cat' or tail of
> the email file,
>    Chinese shows up just fine!
> 
> 3. If I use 'less' to show the email file, fonts get
> screwed up, in
>    a different way from how mutt screws it up.

That's an unrelated problem. You would find more
works,
but less doesn't, unless you use "less -r". read the
man page of less for the -r option.

> 
> 4. I tried to add xterm to /etc/termcap and do "tic"
> by following 
>    READM.termcap.  After I have done "tic", mutt
> refues to start
>    and says 
> 
> Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen
> or position the cursor.

That's strange. You should be able to revert the
change by 
1. edit /etc/termcap and remove the section appended.
(the original instruction was to append one of 
the file to /etc/termcap).

2. remove the terminfo entry. It is a single file
"/usr/share/terminfo/c/cxtem"

> 
> I have little clue as to what might wrong.  Can you
> shed some lights?
> 

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