mc installtion

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B1iff (pituran) wrote:

> thanks,  do you know where I could get it?
>
>
> Pavel Tsekov schrieb:
>
>> 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.
>
Here's one set of patches: 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/mc/ Although, I still have 
old habit of setting LANG=C or LANG=EN_us instead of the UTF-8 flavors. :-/

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