Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander)

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Carlos E. R.

10 Apr 2005 10 Apr '05

19:02

Hi, Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines. I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Ciro Iriarte

12 Apr 12 Apr

04:55

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On Apr 10, 2005 3:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Hi,

Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines.

I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas?

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Eeee, need more info, but that happened to me working remotely with putty, you should set the character code to UTF8 CI.-

Jack Malone

15:14

New subject: [SLE] Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander)

At 11:55 PM 4/11/2005, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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On Apr 10, 2005 3:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Hi,

Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines.

I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas?

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Eeee, need more info, but that happened to me working remotely with putty, you should set the character code to UTF8

CI.- I have had this same problem here when using putty. I need another good ssh client here to run from windows other then putty. I have penguNet but it seem to have no developement now an I also can not get it to connect to suse 9.2 ssh server. any help on this would be nice. I can get PenguNet to work right I will stay with it for now or be glad to go to another program even If I have to pay to do so. thanks

I need to be able to ssh into my linux servers from remote machines inhouse an from outside of the company over the internet. thanks jack jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com

Ciro Iriarte

13 Apr 13 Apr

02:41

New subject: [SLE] Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander)

On 4/12/05, Jack Malone wrote:

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At 11:55 PM 4/11/2005, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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On Apr 10, 2005 3:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Hi,

Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines.

I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas?

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

...
Eeee, need more info, but that happened to me working remotely with putty, you should set the character code to UTF8

CI.- I have had this same problem here when using putty. I need another good ssh client here to run from windows other then putty. I have penguNet but it seem to have no developement now an I also can not get it to connect to suse 9.2 ssh server. any help on this would be nice. I can get PenguNet to work right I will stay with it for now or be glad to go to another program even If I have to pay to do so. thanks

I need to be able to ssh into my linux servers from remote machines inhouse an from outside of the company over the internet.

thanks jack

jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com

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On putty configuration, Window -- Translation ----"Character set translation on received data" Choose UTF-8 from the drop down list. CI.-

Carlos E. R.

00:53

New subject: [SLE] Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander)

The Tuesday 2005-04-12 at 00:55 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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On Apr 10, 2005 3:02 PM, Carlos E. R. <....@....> wrote:

Please, don't put the real address of anybody in the email body. It makes life easier for spammers and virii.

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Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines.

I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas?

Eeee, need more info, but that happened to me working remotely with putty, you should set the character code to UTF8

I use both UTF-8 and iso, same result. It is something related to the user environment. For example, on an xterm, user "cer" sees mc correctly. If I "su" to root, I see mc correctly, with line drawing. But if I instead use "su -", then I see lines as "â" instead. So it has to be something in the environment of user "cer" that is different from the rest of users that makes "mc" show line boxes correctly. But I can't imagine what it is. Perhaps I'll have to compare settings... :-( -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Ciro Iriarte

02:43

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On 4/12/05, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2005-04-12 at 00:55 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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On Apr 10, 2005 3:02 PM, Carlos E. R. <....@....> wrote:

Please, don't put the real address of anybody in the email body. It makes life easier for spammers and virii.

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Under my normal user, I get the boxes in mc drawn with line characters; ie, they are lines. Under any other user they show weird, with the letter "â" instead of the lines.

I can't find what change I did to my normal user to get that. Any ideas?

Eeee, need more info, but that happened to me working remotely with putty, you should set the character code to UTF8

I use both UTF-8 and iso, same result.

It is something related to the user environment. For example, on an xterm, user "cer" sees mc correctly. If I "su" to root, I see mc correctly, with line drawing. But if I instead use "su -", then I see lines as "â" instead.

So it has to be something in the environment of user "cer" that is different from the rest of users that makes "mc" show line boxes correctly. But I can't imagine what it is.

Perhaps I'll have to compare settings... :-(

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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output from locale command??

Philipp Thomas

08:50

New subject: [SLE] Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander)

"Carlos E. R." [13 Apr 2005 02:53]:

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So it has to be something in the environment of user "cer" that is different from the rest of users that makes "mc" show line boxes correctly. But I can't imagine what it is.

What's the setting of LC_CTYPE for that user and other users? The output of running locale should show how it's set. Philipp

Carlos E. R.

19:01

New subject: [SLE] Line characters in mc (Midnight Comander) [Solved]

The Wednesday 2005-04-13 at 10:50 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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So it has to be something in the environment of user "cer" that is different from the rest of users that makes "mc" show line boxes correctly. But I can't imagine what it is.

What's the setting of LC_CTYPE for that user and other users? The output of running locale should show how it's set.

I found the cause of the problem: I use two different xterms. One, is the normal xterm; the other I start with the command " LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 /usr/bin/xterm & I have to use an iso xterm for some programs, like Pine, for example. This xterm works well for the user that has the desktop, but not if I "sux - user" to somebody else. iso xterm (gnome under user cer) --------- user cer LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO-8859-1" works ok. su - root LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 mc does not draw lines su - fido LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" mc does not draw lines utf xterm (default, gnome) ---------- user cer LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" works su - root LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 works su - fido LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" works The problem with the utf locale for mc is that the windows partitions use the iso set, and some chars show as "?" - so I prefer the iso set. I wonder if I can pass environment variables to "sux" ? If not, I'll modify my "isoxterm" script to request "user" name first. Or use "mc -a", as Paul Trevethan mentioned. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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