Re: mc vs mrxvt, UTF8

> On 2. Nov 2024, at 17:41, wwp via mc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get mc with UTF-8 support to run in mrxvt, which has no
> support for it. Of course I know I can switch to another terminal.. but
> none bring what mrxvt does and the UTF-8 branch of mrxvt is not usable,
> thus asking here if that sounds possible or not.

mc supports UTF-8 in terms of a) printing UTF-8 characters and b) converting UTF-8 characters to the terminal encoding, if it’s different from UTF-8 as long as you build with --enable-charset.

> Any tips here? The only thing I get if I run mc with LANG/LC_ALL set to
> en_US.UTF-8 from a mrxvt instance is a broken layout (frames) and UTF-8
> chars not shown correctly. Tried with slang or ncurses for screen
> support, no change.

This is working exactly as expected. You lie to mc that your terminal supports UTF-8, it starts printing UTF-8 characters and this results in a broken layout.

You should tell mc which encoding is really supported by your terminal, and it will convert everything it can to this encoding, e.g.

  LANG=C LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1 mc

Maybe you should have started by explaining what is not working and what you are trying to achieve in the first place.
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