Re: mc under Eterm

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alessandro Magni wrote:
>
> > Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alessandro Magni wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > I ran into a problem trying to switch my terminal from Konsole to Eterm:
> > > > my beloved mc (GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1a) is now unable to display
> > > > graphic chars,
> > >
> > > Is that the MC which comes with FC5 ? If that is the case I suspect
> > > that it is an UTF-8 related issue. It would help if you provide the
> > > output of "mc -V" and "echo $TERM".
> > thanks for the quick reply!
> > Yes, it is the FC5 rpm => mc-4.6.1a-12.FC5
>
> Ok.
>
> > # echo $TERM
> > Eterm
> >
> > I'm sorry to be such a newbie not to know what a "UTF-8 issue"  is ... ;-)
>
> Basically, the Fedora rpm (as well as packages from several other vendors)
> includes a set of patches which enable MC to work in a utf8-ized environment. 
> Those patches are not part of the original MC code. Anyway,
> my guess is that Eterm is not UTF-8 capable. I'd suggest you to set
> the LANG environment so that UTF-8 encoding won't be used by MC. For example:
>
>  "export LANG=C" or "export it_IT.ISO8859-1" or "export it_IT"


Ooops, sorry. The above should read:

  export LANG=it_IT.ISO8859-1
  export LANG=it_IT