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kazikcz

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Registered: 2007-02-11

Posts: 3

Midnight Commander fails when entering directories with special chars

I'm not sure if I should tackle this problem here, but here it goes.

Few days ago I installed Arch, and I'm pretty happy with it. It works lean & clean, but there are still some issues that irritate me. One of these is MC, which acts kind of odd.

When I enter a directory containing some "special" characters in it's name (eg. "directory_name_has_underscores") it messes MC's view up displaying a warning message saying: "Cannot change to: /prefix/directory_name_has_underscores". However, I can browse through the (with disorted view) directory's contents, until I do Ctrl+O, and return. If I do that I get back to the /prefix/, i.e. the place, just before entering the directory "directory_name_has_underscores".

I used Slackware before, and haven't experienced any problems back then.

Those may help understanding the issue:

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Midnight Commander fails when entering directories with special chars

It needs a patch since a recent bash update. I would suggest enabling the community repository in pacman.conf and installing mc-utf8 instead, which (a) has been patched already and (b) works with utf8.

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kazikcz

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Registered: 2007-02-11

Posts: 3

Re: Midnight Commander fails when entering directories with special chars

Thanks for the quick reply. I grabbed the mc-utf8 update. It works now!