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