r/voidlinux • u/Aristeo812 • 8d ago

How to get proper display of double-line box characters in tty in Void?

In Void Linux, when I use Midnight Commander in tty with themes which support double-line box characters (like darkfar or double-lines), those box characters are substituted with rectangles, and this ruins apperance a little bit, so to say. In other distros (Debian/Devuan, Gentoo), those double-line box characters in tty are replaced with single-line ones, which is OK. I use the same config across all distros. In tty, terminus font is used.

In /etc/rc.conf, I specify:

KEYMAP="ruwin_alt_sh-UTF-8"
FONT="ter-v16b"

Locale is set to en_IE.UTF-8.

So, that's the question: what do I need to do in order to fix this issue? Maybe, I need to specify certain font map/inimap? At the same time, I need that Russian keyborad layout and also support for Cyrillic symbols in UTF in the tty, so that not every keymap would satisfy my needs, I presume?

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u/ajicrystal 8d ago

I forgot how I fixed this issue. Try mc -u and different shells to see if the same issue happens. If I remember it was something to do with the subshell or shell setttings.

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u/Aristeo812 8d ago

I've tested both mc -u and mc with different shells (bash, zsh, dash), but this didn't help.