Editing a file in CP866 encoding

[Michael Dukelsky]

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>> I've installed mc 4.7.0.1-1.el5 in CentOS 5.4. The internal viewer shows
>> CP866 files correctly. But the internal editor shows only the lower-case
>> letters correctly. It shows dots instead of all upper-case letters
>> except 0xF0. What do I do to see the upper-case letters?
> 
> Set up your locale correctly. 
> 
> I can't reproduce this on CentOS 4:
> 
> [root at ve-151 ~]# locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

Thank you, with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I see everything after pressing Alt-e
and choosing CP866. But why can't I use LANG=ru_RU.CP866? I thought that
with this locale it would be possible to see files in CP866 encoding
without pressing Alt-e.

Best regards,
Michael Dukelsky