Midnight Commander

[David M. Carney]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 06:51 +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
>David M. Carney wrote:
>> Midnight Commander (mc) looks great in a Gnome-Terminal. But in a real
>> console (tty?) it is unusable.
>> 
>> Is there a way to fix it to recognize UTF-8?
>
>Are you sure that your locale is using UTF-8? Try with 'locale charmap'.
>
>Is the terminal using UTF-8? Check with 'vt-is-UTF8' and, if it is not set,
>enable it with 'unicode_start'.
>
>Did you try to use a console font other than the default one? For example, my
>console looks much better when I use 'consolechars -f latarcyrheb-sun16.psf'.
>
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As I said in my post, it looks great in a Gnome-Terminal. But in a
console or tty (reached by hitting ctrl-alt-F1) it is unusabel.

I tried 'locale charmap' in the tty and it returned "UTF-8".

David

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