MC can't find graphical characters

[Roland Illig]

kynn at panix.com wrote:
> Hello!  I just installed MC off my $HOME directory.  I've gotten it so
> that running mc produces no error messages, but the display is screwed
> up.  Instead of the "graphical charset" to draw the vertical and
> horizontal lines, and corners and tee's, I get a weird-looking letter
> "a" all over the place.
> 
> Is there some configuration I can tweak to obtain the correct display?
> Alternatively, is there some simple test I can perform to ensure that
> my terminal can even *display* the correct characters?  FWIW, TERM is
> set to xterm.

To have a semi-nice looking mc, you can call it like "mc -a" (-a means 
"use ASCII line drawing characters"). The rest depends on your terminal. 
I have had success running mc inside the GNU screen program. You might 
also try some other TERM values like vt100, or rxvt.

Roland