[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#568138: Bug#568138: broken mcview with binary files

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hi Riccardo!

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 23:04 +0100, Riccardo Stagni wrote:

> what version of mc are you using? Locale?

4.7.0.1 package, fully UTF-8 locale.

> Looking in the upstream ticket archive I found the following one:
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1918
> and it seems the same issue!

OK, this might very well apply to you, I didn't notice that you are not
using a non-UTF-8 locale in the first place. I filled this ticket
because another user has been having problems with quick view, but
apparently it applies to mcview as well, he just didn't notice it.

Also this doesn't really have to do with executing binary files, but
rather incorrect on-screen position calculations for single-byte
non-alphanumeric characters.

> (so I think that version 4.7.0.2 should fix this issue... I tagged this
> bugreport consequently, if you think that it isn't the same issue please
> feel free to retag)

Unfortunately, we can't release 4.7.0.2 right now, it will take us some
time to merge all the changes, but it would be nice if you could report
back if this fixes the issue after the package is updated.

Thank you for your help!
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev