A simple question about hebrew in terminal

[Michael Vasiliev]

Herouth Maoz wrote:
> Quoting Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com>:
>
>>> and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror >or 
>>> whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly.
>>
>> It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with
>> mozilla for example, it shows indeed :
>> File:קובץ.a
>>
>> However, when I try to look at the contents of that directory using
>> midnight commander, it shows garbage.
>> something like: ץ???ק.a
>>
>> And it is important for me to view the contents of directories with
>> hebrew file names properly with midnight commander as it is my daily
>> file management app.
>
> seems that midnight commander has an encoding rather than BiDi issue.
> You should look for a way to set up its encoding, to be aware of UTF-8
> file names.
>
Not all MC versions with the the same version number are born equal.
Some distros such as RH went as far as writing their own patches to MC
for UTF-8 support and better looks.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Michael Vasiliev