Alpine, tmux and UTF-8

A quicky in case anybody has the same issue. I use pine / alpine as a mail client since my firsts steps on the UNIX/Linux world, it always served me well.
Nevertheless, since a couple of weeks, I had this weird behavior where the mail content pager would not display accents (éàü…) while the mail list would! Worse, this inconsistent behavior only happened in tmux.
I suspected something involving locales but no, everything was fine on this side.
So it turns out alpine’s mail content pager doesn’t know how to cope with a value of screen-256color in the TERM variable. Changing it to xterm-256color fixed accents display.

Still posting this kind of fix in 2020…