Re: mc under Eterm

[Alessandro Magni <magni inrim it>]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 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
This almost worked, thanks!
Pity that no chars at all are printed for the graphic chars (yet they 
are present in the font I use,  -b&h-luxi 
mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1),
but at least mc is usable.

--- now back to study what the hell UT is...


Alessandro


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