Re: mc installtion

[Curtis Doty <Curtis GreenKey net>]

B1iff (pituran) wrote:

> thanks,  do you know where I could get it?
>
>
> Pavel Tsekov schrieb:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, B1iff (pituran) wrote:
> >
> > > my configurations are:
> > >
> > > System:
> > > OpenSuse 10 minimal-installation (text-console only)
> > >
> > > from tarball sources:
> > > pkgconfig
> > > slang
> > > glibc
> > >
> > > MC from sources too
> > >
> > > By default UTF-8 and german language support are installed.
> > >
> > > Do I switch off UTF-8 line drawing works properly. But that can't be 
> > > the
> > > solution.
> > > Do I use the internal Suse rpm installation - everything is ok and MC
> > > use line drawing.
> > >
> > > But if I install from sources and start MC after installation i have no
> > > line drawing. Using 'mc -a' works fine but doesn't solve the line
> > > drawing problem.
> > >
> > > Do I use the command 'unicode_stop' before I start MC - MC works with
> > > line drawing.
> > >
> > > It looks like a font or unicode problem but I have no idea at all.
> > > Suse solves this problem but I have no clue how they do it.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an idea?
> >
> >
> > Official MC doesn't support UTF-8. There is an independet set of patches
> > which add UTF-8 support to MC. This set of patches is applied by various
> > vendors and that's why the MC package that comes with SUSE behaves as
> > you expect.
Here's one set of patches: 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/mc/ Although, I still have 
old habit of setting LANG=C or LANG=EN_us instead of the UTF-8 flavors. :-/

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