139438 – mc, mcviewer, mcedit with UTF8 support

Bug 139438 - mc, mcviewer, mcedit with UTF8 support

Summary: mc, mcviewer, mcedit with UTF8 support

Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2006-07-06 08:55 UTC by Hamlet Mun
Modified:	2006-07-06 09:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Hamlet Mun 2006-07-06 08:55:01 UTC

midnight commander distributed with Fedora and Suse, seems to have full support for UTF8
even for the viewer and editor

Fedora
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/mc-4.6.0-6.src.rpm

Suse
http://www.suse.de/~nadvornik/mc.html

Comment 1 Nick Devito 2006-07-06 08:59:19 UTC

Just doing a quick glance at the mc ebuild, maybe the unicode useflag enables UTF8 support? 
[snippet from ebuild]
        if use slang && use unicode; then
                epatch ${DISTDIR}/${P}-utf8.patch.bz2
        fi
[/snippet]

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-06 09:01:21 UTC

I don't see what you mean here, the patches are already used.

Comment 3 Hamlet Mun 2006-07-06 09:03:52 UTC

With slang and unicode flags enabled, the menu shows correct characters for ko_KR.UTF8.
But I can't write Korean file names.
First, I have to use Ctrl + O to close the windows.
Same problem with editing files (F4). I can't write Korean or Chinese.

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-06 09:12:44 UTC

Won't be much better until slang-2 w/ proper unicode support gets into portage (Bug 95247).