Re: MC can't find graphical characters

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

You may wat to play with the Window -> Appearance and Window ->
Translation sections of the PuTTY connection configuration.

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 kynn panix com wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:45:11 +0200
>    From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>
>    Cc: mc gnome org
>
>    You need to tell us more about the environment from which you are trying
>    to start MC i.e. desktop environment if any, terminal emulator, operating
>    system.
>
> The host running MC is Linux Debian.  I connect to this host from a
> Windows2000 workstation via PuTTY.  PuTTY handles the terminal
> emulation and sets TERM to xterm; up until this problem with MC I have
> not had any problem with it.  Are there any other relevant environment
> variables that may bear on the MC display?  Thanks!
>
> kj
>
>    On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 kynn panix com wrote:
>
>    > Hello!  I just installed MC off my $HOME directory.  I've gotten it so
>    > that running mc produces no error messages, but the display is screwed
>    > up.  Instead of the "graphical charset" to draw the vertical and
>    > horizontal lines, and corners and tee's, I get a weird-looking letter
>    > "a" all over the place.
>    >
>    > Is there some configuration I can tweak to obtain the correct display?
>    > Alternatively, is there some simple test I can perform to ensure that
>    > my terminal can even *display* the correct characters?  FWIW, TERM is
>    > set to xterm.
>    >
>    > Thanks!
>    >
>    > kj
>    >
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