Re: Request for discussion - how to make MC unicode capable

[Denis Vlasenko <vda linux googlemail com>]

On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:57, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to initiate a discussion on how to make MC
> unicode deal with multibyte character sets. I'd like
> to hear from the developers of the UTF-8 patch and
> from the ncurses maintaner. Anyone else who can help
> with their expertise is also welcome. This has been
> a major drawback for quite some time and it needs to
> be addressed ASAP.

I'd say that in the long run Unicode and its
most useful encoding, UTF-8, is going to be the most
widespread. At the very minimum, mc should be usable
on pure UTF-8 systems (systems whose terminals and
filenames are in UTF-8). Currently it is not.

Regarding displaying texts in various encodings:
GNU recode is still available, don't try to do
all things for all people at once.
--
vda