id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 2386 Interpretation of LANG variable needs to be case insensitive. urkle andrew_b "Related bug in iTerm 2 http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=204 When the LANG variable is set to en_US.utf-8 mcedit specifically does not correctly accept input (every character press is interpreted as a '.'). However when LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 mcedit works correctly. From the work on the bug against iTerm 2 it was discovered that in reality midnight commander is not handling the LANG and LC_* environment variable correctly. From the IANA document on character sets. The character set names may be up to 40 characters taken from the printable characters of US-ASCII. However, no distinction is made between use of upper and lower case letters. http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets " defect closed major 4.8.3 mc-core 4.7.4 fixed merged committed-master committed-stable