On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:01, Peter wrote: > On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:55:35 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:02, Peter wrote: > >> After > >> 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 > >> 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 > >> 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses > >> (which included mc) > >> > >> Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border > >> characters. Does this have something to do with unicode support? The > >> only way I can get any useful terminal output is to use the -a output > >> for stick characters. Inside an xterm or similar, mc shows graphical > >> characters fine. I re-emerged mc with -unicode, but the results are the > >> same. > >> > >> Clues? > > > > Yup... > > > > I had the same MC issue after upgrading to the 2006.1 levels. It's a very > > basic language issue. I'm not sure if it's gcc, glibc or perhaps an xorg > > module... > > > > Prior to this upgrade, I never gave language setting a second thought... > > but once mc began acting up, I started digging around with google and > > this is what I cobbled up. > > > > In "/etc/env.d/02locale " I have set: LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1" > > In "/etc/rc.conf" I set "UNICODE=no" > > In "/etc/conf.d/consolefont" I have set: > > CONSOLETRANSLATION=8859-1_to_UNI" > > > > That last line makes no since to me, but it seems to be required for MC. > > > > Last but least run env-update, source /etc/profile and check > > /etc/profile.env has LC_ALL set to "en_US.ISO-8859-1". It may take a > > reboot, but once I had made the change, midnight commander began drawing > > lines again. > > > > The only other problems I ever had with MC is, if I leave mc running for > > any length of time, it begins to take more and more cpu resource... Top > > will show like 80% useage. Once I kill off mc, everything is back to > > normal. Anyone have a tip for that one? > > > > Jerry... > > > > P.S. I welcome all comments. > > It required a reboot although I think I could have run console manually. > Turning off UNICODE and enabling the cache translation setting as you > suggested worked. This needs to be documented. Jerry, would you like to > add your comments to the bug? I'd like to see you credited for your help. >
Hi Peter, I just had a look at the bug report and comment #5 from Jakub Moc is the correct fix. I'll chime in and post my thoughts anyway... Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
