Pseudographics in text mode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I  am having problems setting up mc to display pseu-
> dographics characters in a text-mode virtual  termi-
> nal. Only the "default" skin, which does not contain
> double  lines,  works  well.  It  is  very   strange
> because, if I 'cat' those skin files all the graphi-
> cal symbols are shown correctly, so I wonder why  MC
> does not "see" them...

MC (and ncurses/slang) is paying attention to locale, while "cat" is not.
It's possible to have a terminal setup to handle UTF-8 encoding without
requiring that the locale seen by programs inside it matches.

>
> My console is in UTF-8 mode and the TERM variable is
> set to "linux".
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anton
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