Re: mc vs mrxvt, UTF8

> On 3. Nov 2024, at 13:49, wwp via mc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Okay, this makes a lot more sense. You should be able to do this if

(1) mc is built with --enable-charset, 
(2) you correctly specify the encoding your terminal supports (see previous mail), and 
(3) that encoding is actually able to represent the UTF-8 characters used in the filenames.

If (3) is not true, then there is no solution to this problem that mc can provide. It can display filenames as unprintable character substitution symbols, but this isn't really helpful.

To learn how to use recoding, read the manual. I think in your case you would need to specify /#enc:UTF-8/.

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