$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

$ cat /etc/mc/mc.charsets
ASCII           7-bit ASCII
UTF-8           UTF-8
UCS-2LE         UNICODELITTLE
UTF-16LE        UTF-16LE
CP932           MS932
CP936           MS936

$ find . -type f -print -exec xxd {} \;
./ucs2le.txt
00000000: 4100 4200 4300 4400 4500 4600 0a00 4700  A.B.C.D.E.F...G.
00000010: 4800 4900 4a00 4b00 4c00 0a00 4d00 4e00  H.I.J.K.L...M.N.
00000020: 4f00 5000 5100 5200 0a00 5800 5500 4300  O.P.Q.R...X.U.C.
00000030: 5300 3200 5800 0a00 004e 8c4e 094e db56  S.2.X....N.N.N.V
00000040: 944e 0a00 6d51 034e 6b51 5d4e 4153 0a00  .N..mQ.NkQ]NAS..
00000050: 4153 004e 4153 8c4e 4153 094e 0a00 f158  AS.NAS.NAS.N...X
00000060: 105f c253 8680 0d4f 0a00 7896 066f 4c63  ._.S...O..x..oLc
00000070: 9673 fe62 0a00 f958 308d c153 8680 0d4f  .s.b...X0..S...O
00000080: 0a00 4696 d267 4c63 9673 fe62 0a00       ..F..gLc.s.b..
./utf8.txt
00000000: 4142 4344 4546 0a47 4849 4a4b 4c0a 4d4e  ABCDEF.GHIJKL.MN
00000010: 4f50 5152 0a58 5554 4638 580a e4b8 80e4  OPQR.XUTF8X.....
00000020: ba8c e4b8 89e5 9b9b e4ba 940a e585 ade4  ................
00000030: b883 e585 abe4 b99d e58d 810a e58d 81e4  ................
00000040: b880 e58d 81e4 ba8c e58d 81e4 b889 0ae5  ................
00000050: a3b1 e5bc 90e5 8f82 e882 86e4 bc8d 0ae9  ................
00000060: 99b8 e6bc 86e6 8d8c e78e 96e6 8bbe 0ae5  ................
00000070: a3b9 e8b4 b0e5 8f81 e882 86e4 bc8d 0ae9  ................
00000080: 9986 e69f 92e6 8d8c e78e 96e6 8bbe 0a    ...............
./cp936.txt
00000000: 4142 4344 4546 0a47 4849 4a4b 4c0a 4d4e  ABCDEF.GHIJKL.MN
00000010: 4f50 5152 0a58 4350 3933 3658 0ad2 bbb6  OPQR.XCP936X....
00000020: fec8 fdcb c4ce e50a c1f9 c6df b0cb bec5  ................
00000030: caae 0aca aed2 bbca aeb6 feca aec8 fd0a  ................
00000040: d2bc b7a1 c8fe cbc1 cee9 0ac2 bdc6 e2b0  ................
00000050: c6be c1ca b00a                           ......
./cp932.txt
00000000: 4142 4344 4546 0a47 4849 4a4b 4c0a 4d4e  ABCDEF.GHIJKL.MN
00000010: 4f50 5152 0a58 4350 3933 3278 0a88 ea93  OPQR.XCP932x....
00000020: f18e 4f8e 6c8c dc0a 985a 8eb5 94aa 8be3  ..O.l....Z......
00000030: 8f5c 0a8f 5c88 ea8f 5c93 f18f 5c8e 4f0a  .\..\...\...\.O.
00000040: 88eb 93f3 8e51 e3e6 8cde 0a97 a48e bd8e  .....Q..........
00000050: 4a8b e88f 450a 98cf 98c0 0a              J...E......

$ mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander unknown
Built with GLib 2.48.2
Using the ncursesw library
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;