Hmm... Everything but LC_ALL is UTF-8 mc -a does fix it But I have figured out that I was using xfce4-terminal instead of Konsole or QTerminal, and the problem is only there.
I guess the moral of the story is to use mc -a if you are using xfce4-terminal, or just use a different terminal for mc I had installed pv and progress in attempts to get progress meters while transferring files to my new hard drive from the command line over the network, but then realized that mc already had progress meters and worked great. I guess they weren't the culprits after all. I guess I hadn't tried mc in the xfce4-terminal I had inadvertently launched. Unless me installing advcpmv locally to test somehow borked it just for xfce4-terminal On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 9:33 AM Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Nat Taylor wrote: > > > My midnight commander's output is all weird, it's framed with > > diamonds with question marks in them, The file listings on the left > > hand side have their beginnings obscured due to this. I recently > > installed progress, pv, and rsync. I uninstalled progress, thinking > > that it may have had something to do to it, but to no avail. > > I suspect it's one of two things. > > First, your language settings may be off. What is the output of the > "locale" utility in the terminal you're using to launch mc? > > If it's not set to a unicode variant (e.g., en_US.UTF-8), you'll want > to do that: > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > and try launching mc again. > > Second, if your LANG variable is set to a UTF-8 variant, then the > problem may be that the terminal you're using is not > unicode-compliant. Try "mc -a," which uses simpler glyphs. > > Finally, mc may be trying to use a typeface that doesn't exist on your > system. I don't know Midnight Commander well enough to suggest a fix. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > [email protected] > 45°38' N, 122°6' W_______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
