Re: mc under Eterm



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


... and "export LANG=C" WITH "mc -a" did the trick!

thanks a lot1


alessandro



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