Pavel Tsekov wrote: > 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 > > ... and "export LANG=C" WITH "mc -a" did the trick!
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