Description of problem: Midnight Commander does not display correctly 8-bit characters in viewer (F3) if using any 8-bit locale except UTF-8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.6.1a-50.20070604cvs.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set locale to any non-UTF8 8-bit locale and switch gnome-terminal to that locale (e.g: export LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R and switch gnome-terminal to KOI8-R). 2. View (F3) any file containing 8-bit characters, you should see cyrillic letters instead of most codes with code >= 128. Actual results: It displays latin characters (codes < 128) instead of characters with high bit set. Looks like if the high bit would be somewhere lost. Expected results: 8-bit characters should be displayed as is. Additional info: Half of year ago I found someone's patch that fixes the problem. Unfortunately I can't remember where I found it since I haven't intended to submit it anywhere, just that I kept recompiling mc with every update, but now I see that it takes too long to wait till this bug hits the trunk. The patch is attached.
Created attachment 290385 [details] A simple patch that fixes the bug (not mine)
Applied, thanks!
Jindrich and Andrew, this patch is taken straight from bug #188079 (patch #128659). The original author is Dmitry Butskoy (and he should take credit in the changelog). Jindrich, somehow you let us wait 2 years for the apply and all that was needed was to open a new bug for you to see. I'll try to use that tactics for my other bugs, thanks for a tip.
*** Bug 188079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2 With UTF-8 support in mc now correct work with one-byte charsets. Now possible to edit/view UTF-8 files with 8-bit system charset and possible to edit/view 8-bit files with UTF-8 system charset. Also, possible to recode filenames/dirnames in left/right panel (and recode names on-fly while copy/move, of course)