[gentoo-user] Re: mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal

["Peter" <sw98234@hotmail.com>]

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.
>

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146990
This is tough. I filed a bug. Obviously, with unicode a new can of worms
has been opened. I have slang, ncurses, etc. I did not change the default
console fonts but am afraid I will have to. ITMT, mc -a will have to do.
Thanks for the feedback. Feel free to chime in on the bug. Jakub is in his
worksforme mode.

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