Re: Question about an old i18n bug in MC

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Quoting Rostislav Krasny <rosti bsd gmail com>:

> Hi,
>
> There is a well know i18n bug in Midnight Commander 4.6.0 (and older).
> It cannot display the help and hints properly in any russian localized
> system that is using any cyrillic codepage, except a KOI8-R. Is this
> bug already fixed in the 4.6.1-pre5 or is it going to be fixed in the
> final 4.6.1 release of Midnight Commander?

No, it wasn't fixed and it won't be fixed in 4.6.1.  Fixing it would require
support for charset translation, which is not standard across the OSes we
support.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin