Midnight Commander

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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.

It might be. A ncurses app which used to have problems with UTF-8 but have
solved them (see below...) is aptitude: as soon as it realizes that the
charset is UTF-8, it switches back to the C locale :-/

Danilo