Re: mc vs mrxvt, UTF8

Hello Yury,


On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:06:29 +0100 "Yury V. Zaytsev via mc" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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.

Thanks for those explanations.

What I am trying to achieve by using mc sounded obvious to me,
apologies for this: I'm trying to list/manipulate files and folders (mc
does a great job at that) whose names contain UTF-8 characters. At
least list and rename them, by running mc in mrxvt.

What's not working? In such conditions, UTF-8 filenames are not showing
in a human readable manner, and (worst case), mc layout frames (main
screen, dialogs) are shown as broken since every single bar char takes 1-n
characters to display, breaking look and alignment, unless I use `mc -a`.


>   LANG=C LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1 mc

With this (or close to this, -15), I see proper mc frame layouts and
dialogs, but filenames still show undecoded chars.


Regards,

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