mc installtion

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov at gmx.net
Sun Jan 29 20:37:49 UTC 2006


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, B1iff (pituran) wrote:

> my configurations are:
>
> System:
> OpenSuse 10 minimal-installation (text-console only)
>
> from tarball sources:
> pkgconfig
> slang
> glibc
>
> MC from sources too
>
> By default UTF-8 and german language support are installed.
>
> Do I switch off UTF-8 line drawing works properly. But that can't be the
> solution.
> Do I use the internal Suse rpm installation - everything is ok and MC
> use line drawing.
>
> But if I install from sources and start MC after installation i have no
> line drawing. Using 'mc -a' works fine but doesn't solve the line
> drawing problem.
>
> Do I use the command 'unicode_stop' before I start MC - MC works with
> line drawing.
>
> It looks like a font or unicode problem but I have no idea at all.
> Suse solves this problem but I have no clue how they do it.
>
> Does anyone have an idea?

Official MC doesn't support UTF-8. There is an independet set of patches
which add UTF-8 support to MC. This set of patches is applied by various
vendors and that's why the MC package that comes with SUSE behaves as
you expect.



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