mc & utf-8 for Dapper Drake

Am Freitag, den 28.10.2005, 09:09 +0200 schrieb Ondrej Sury:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2005, 13:44 +0200 schrieb Ondrej Sury:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > there seems to be a lot of negative PR about midnight commander not
> > > supporting utf-8 in non-english world (well, at least in CZ).
> > > Could somebody from MOTU team have a peak on it before it hits Dapper
> > > Drake. I tried to apply patches as mentioned in Debian BTS, but without
> > > considerable success (read it didn't work).  mc in nearly useless in
> > > cs_CZ.UTF-8 (f.e.) and there is a lot of heat about that fact.
> > > 
> > > Ondrej.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > this annoyed me too with the mc in Debian and Ubuntu. I'll take care of
> > it in the next days, don't worry :)
> > IIRC the gentoo guys have patches to get UTF-8 support in mc
> 
> See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242194
> 
> There's lot of information about mc&utf-8 there...
> 
> Ondrej.

Yes, I already read it... but nothing that useful :/
Debian/Ubuntu are using slang2, every distribution with mc-utf8 support
uses slang1 with hacked in utf8 support.

I'm currently working on porting that patch to slang2... and I hope I
have it finished next wednesday


Bye
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