the Midnight Commander

[Christian]

Gábor Iglói schrieb:
> I apt-getted the mc package on my Ubuntu Hoary. I'm Hungarian, so most
> of my apps speaks Hungarian - which is very good. But I think this is
> the problem with mc because it speaks Hungarian too but the app's
> interface gets broken up - maybe because of the different word lengths
> of the English and Hungarian language.

It is more a problem with UTF-8. So it comes, that the lines with
diacritic characters are shortened, one character cell per diacritic
character.

> Does anybody use a localized version of mc and have a similar problem?

Yes, when I'm using mc with german UTF-8 locale, I have the same problems.

> Is there any fix for it? I would even use mc in English (but don't
> know how to tell him to do) because currently it is very hard to
> read/use.

Change the locale in the terminal mc is running to "C":

$ export LANG="C"; export LC_ALL="C"

should do the trick; or call mc like this:

$ LANG=C LC_ALL=C mc

It is a known bug (see
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=7936: UTF-8
locales not supported). I fear, that it will not be fixed before 4.7.x.
In the mean time, you can follow the advice in the comment to the above
mentioned bug report.


Hope that helps,

Christian