On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
I have recently done some upgrades, keeping current with slackware-64-current. And what has happened is that suddenly MC started to print funny characters around the panels instead of
a screenshot would help: + If it's 2-3 characters rather than a single character, that indicates that xterm's not using UTF-8 (a resource problem perhaps). You would set in the right-menu-mouse menu that "UTF-8 Encoding" is not checked. + If it's a single character, then that could be a problem with the video driver (or fontconfig, etc). For this, you could try using xterm's built-in line-drawing using the "Line-Drawing Characters" menu option.
printing vertical and horizontal lines. This happens only in an xterm, not in the console terminal where all remains OK. The command mc -a replaces the straight lines with vertical and horizontal dashes, but that does not look nearly so nice.
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