Bug 89465

Summary:

mc is broken over remote logins

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[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

Marc MERLIN <marc_soft>

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Havoc Pennington <hp>

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CLOSED NOTABUG

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Jay Turner <jturner>

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medium

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srevivo

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2003-04-23 06:39:49 UTC

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screenshot showing the mc brokenness	none

Description Marc MERLIN 2003-04-23 04:31:34 UTC

I log in from inside an xterm/eterm on RH 7.3 as root on a RH 9 server, and
mc, just like some other tools like netconfig looks completely broken.
It's unusable, see screenshot

Comment 1 Marc MERLIN 2003-04-23 04:33:27 UTC

Created attachment 91241 [details]
screenshot showing the mc brokenness

Notice that the font is incorrect too and displays things like a's instead
of bars.

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-04-23 06:39:49 UTC

You have to match the encoding of mc to the encoding of 
your terminal. The encoding of mc comes from the locale; for 
example, LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gives UTF-8 encoding, 
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 gives Latin-1. 7.3 terminal will be expecting
Latin-1 by default. RHL 9 gnome-terminal has a menu Terminal->Character Coding
which can be used to change encoding to match remote systems.

This can't be done automatically because the ssh and telnet protocols do
not include encoding negotiation. A screwup in those protocols, so 
the only solution is to manually set your encodings properly.