Re: MC in console

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:36 +0200
"Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > MC in the console is displaying garbage characters instead of line
> > drawing in my Debian Squeeze .
> > I use UTF8 on this machine-could that be the problem?
> > I have tried reconfiguring console-setup with ISO and selecting
> > various font options but that didn't change anything.
>
> aptitude show mc
>
> locale


frank squeeze:~$ aptitude show mc
Package: mc                              
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3:4.7.0.6-1
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Debian MC Packaging Group
<pkg-mc-devel lists alioth debian org> Uncompressed Size: 6,574k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgpm2 (>=
1.20.4), libslang2 (>= 2.0.7-1) Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: perl, zip, unzip, bzip2, links | w3m | lynx, arj, file,
xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer, dbview, odt2txt, gv, catdvi, djvulibre-bin,
imagemagick, python, python-boto, python-tz Description: Midnight
Commander - a powerful file manager GNU Midnight Commander is a
text-mode full-screen file manager. It uses a two panel interface and
a subshell for command execution. It includes an internal editor with
syntax highlighting and an internal viewer with support for binary
files. Also included is Virtual Filesystem (VFS), that allows files
on remote systems (e.g. FTP, SSH servers) and files inside archives
to be manipulated like real files. Homepage:
http://www.midnight-commander.org

frank squeeze:~$ locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
frank squeeze:~$ 

frank squeeze:~$ mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.0.6
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 8
frank squeeze:~$ 

Thanks

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Frank<beacon videotron ca>