Re: mc under Eterm

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alessandro Magni wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > This is because you are not using the right font. xterm-like terminals
> > > which do no support unicode - I guess Eterm is one of them - expect
> > > that the glyphs for the line drawing characters are found in cells 0-31.
> >
> > yes/no: some terminals draw the lines directly:
>
> Sure. I just didn't know whether Eterm supports a similiar feature or
> not and since I do not have Eterm installed I didn't bother to check.
>
> In any case I think it would be good if Alessandro changed the
> font encoding to iso8859 if Eterm is not unicode capable.

That, plus his locale settings (to prevent applications from attempting to 
use Unicode line-drawing codepoints).

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