FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:23:47PM -0400,
Bruce Easton blabbed on about:
> I tried from a Windows putty ssh'ing to a site with that setting set to 
> UTF-8 and with TERM set to xterm for the target system.  the filepro 
> menu did come up and with some color, but the lines & box chars were 
> messed up.  If I set the translation to CP437 and tell it to notify a 
> TERM of ansi (under 'Connection' - 'Data'), everything looks good 
> (albeit mono which is all I ever want).  Of course I realize I'm not 
> using 'screen(1)' in this test and testing nothing other than filepro's 
> main menu, but am I doing something wrong for the xterm emulation?  
> (I've used the ansi with cp437 for years.)

As I recall, it's specifically when screen(1) was in the mix that mutt was
drawing line drawing characters incorrectly unless UTF-8 was used.

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