From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GMEHr-0002kw-Kd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:39:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8A1cGdB024874; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:38:16 GMT Received: from alnrmhc11.comcast.net (alnrmhc14.comcast.net [206.18.177.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8A1Vqet015564 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:31:53 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060910013151b14001p1fee>; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:31:51 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:31:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200609091755.35304.mcbrides9@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609092131.51080.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: aaec9e36-8f75-4d01-baa2-273b657d3d0c X-Archives-Hash: cc3e55c12f163e6dad153b5ecf221aab On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:01, Peter wrote: > On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:55:35 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:02, Peter wrote: > >> After > >> 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 > >> 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 > >> 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses > >> (which included mc) > >> > >> Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border > >> characters. Does this have something to do with unicode support? The > >> only way I can get any useful terminal output is to use the -a output > >> for stick characters. Inside an xterm or similar, mc shows graphical > >> characters fine. I re-emerged mc with -unicode, but the results are the > >> same. > >> > >> Clues? > > > > Yup... > > > > I had the same MC issue after upgrading to the 2006.1 levels. It's a very > > basic language issue. I'm not sure if it's gcc, glibc or perhaps an xorg > > module... > > > > Prior to this upgrade, I never gave language setting a second thought... > > but once mc began acting up, I started digging around with google and > > this is what I cobbled up. > > > > In "/etc/env.d/02locale " I have set: LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1" > > In "/etc/rc.conf" I set "UNICODE=no" > > In "/etc/conf.d/consolefont" I have set: > > CONSOLETRANSLATION=8859-1_to_UNI" > > > > That last line makes no since to me, but it seems to be required for MC. > > > > Last but least run env-update, source /etc/profile and check > > /etc/profile.env has LC_ALL set to "en_US.ISO-8859-1". It may take a > > reboot, but once I had made the change, midnight commander began drawing > > lines again. > > > > The only other problems I ever had with MC is, if I leave mc running for > > any length of time, it begins to take more and more cpu resource... Top > > will show like 80% useage. Once I kill off mc, everything is back to > > normal. Anyone have a tip for that one? > > > > Jerry... > > > > P.S. I welcome all comments. > > It required a reboot although I think I could have run console manually. > Turning off UNICODE and enabling the cache translation setting as you > suggested worked. This needs to be documented. Jerry, would you like to > add your comments to the bug? I'd like to see you credited for your help. > Hi Peter, I just had a look at the bug report and comment #5 from Jakub Moc is the correct fix. I'll chime in and post my thoughts anyway... Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list