utf8 and mc

[Kevin Wilson <wkevils gmail com>]

Hello,  mc developers list,

I saw that in http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/ that there is
a patch for utf8 support for mc; it is mc-4.6.2-utf8.patch.gz.
Now, I downloaded the mc-4.6.2.tar.gz and build it; can somebody advice
how to apply the patch ? I am a newbie about patches. When opening the
mc-4.6.2-utf8.patch.gz, I get two folders: one is PATCH-CREATE and one
is a. I am not sure what does this mean.  Each folder contains some
*.diff files.

I also saw that there is a git repository for the utf8.
If somebody can tell me what the URL for downloading this utf8 git repository
it could be helpful (namely, what should I add to "git clone ...." so
that I will download the utf8 branch) ?

rgs,
Kevin