How to use graphical line drawing characters with Midnight Commander on OS X under ssh?

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Published on 2010-09-03T11:57:13Z Indexed on 2011/11/20 9:59 UTC
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I discovered that when I do ssh to a machine using OS X 10.6 and use mc I do not see the graphical line drawing characters.

This does not happen if I open terminal and start mc.

I'm connecting using putty configured to use xterm-color, configuraton that works just fine if I do ssh to a linux machine.

The mc from OS X is version 4.7.0 (installed using macports).

What locale returns:

  • LC_CTYPE="C" <== ssh
  • LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" <== Terminal.app

ssh: mc > display bits shows: 7-bit ASCII (changing does not help, it defaults to the same value) Terminal.app: mc > display bits shows: UTF-8

The environment shows TERM=xterm-color in both cases Terminal.app and ss but mc looks different.

I filed a bug to mc with this information at http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2339

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