line drawing characters, or not

[Felix Miata]

Once upon a time it seemed like the framing elements always just worked 
whether in ttys or in terminals in X. In recent times, this competence seems 
to be randomly lost on tty[1-6]. There's no rhyme or reason to whether it 
works or not that I can tell. On different hardware all running the "same" MC 
version (e.g. 4.8.10) in openSUSE 12.2, 12.3, 13.1 & 13.2, Mageia 3 & 4, and 
Fedora 19 & 20, some do it right, and some don't, even within same OS 
version. What controls or may be interfering with this?

In all cases here, the installations are using default EN lang configuration 
unmodified from however each OS installer sets it up. In most cases here, the 
MC INI file (actually all of ~/.config/mc/) is carried over from prior 
version on upgrade, or simply copied from an elder when a new installation, 
all in order to speed carryover of scattered non-default configs such as long 
right listing mode, hotlist, no dir colors, no autoconfigsave, no edit syntax 
colors, internal editor and various others, including history.
-- 
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/