Midnight Commander within console in UTF-8 mode

Timur I. Bakeyev mc at listserv.bat.ru
Wed Oct 24 11:48:21 UTC 2001


I guess it's not an urgent problem and with upcoming glib 1.4 we'll
get nice unicode module, so we can be independent from platform
and have a better framework to deal with different charsets.

I should mention, that MC wasn't(and still not completly) 8-bit
clean quite recently - I've commited patches to work with russian
filenames and strings in the input less than year ago.

And noone complained before :) So, I hope, we can wait a bit untill
new version of glib will be released.

Also, I don't remember claims that Slang is UTF8 or UCS16 safe..


Regards,
    	Timur.
    

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:45:44PM -0700, Andy Rysin wrote:
> --- Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:
> ...
> > My guess is that MC is most likely not responsible for that.  You
> > could
> > check how the screen library (included S-Lang, system installed
> > S-Lang,
> > ncurses) affects this behavior.  Also you could look into
> > "Options->Display bits..." in MC and make sure that you have "Full
> > 8 bits
> > output" enabled.
> 8 bits are defenitely turned on, and I'll try to play with those
> libraries soon. 



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