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 _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
