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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
