Midnight Commander

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:51:27PM -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:48 +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
> >David M. Carney wrote:
> >> 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".
> >
> >And what about the rest? unicode_start/unicode_stop and consolechars only
> >apply to virtual consoles, not to an X terminal.
> >
> >Danilo
> >
> >
> I tried 'vts-is-UTF8' and it reported back "UTF-8 unicode mode".
> 
> I tried the 'consolechars -f latarcyrheb-sun16.psf' and I saw no
> difference whatsoever.
> 
> unicode_stop helped a bit, but it was still messed up some. Of course
> unicode_start set it back to unuseable.
> 
> I did a bit more searching online and there appear to be some patches to
> make mc understand UTF-8.

I wonder if it might be a UTF-8/ncurses incompatibility.  I briefly
tried to use UTF-8 and not only did mc look strange, but other ncurses
apps like dialog acted the same way.  Switching back to ISO-8859-1 made
the apps look normal again.

Bob