initializing screen: character set not supported

[Toasterbirb]

Release: lf-linux-amd64.tar.gz
Error: 2021/02/06 18:04:25 initializing screen: character set not supported

This might have something to do with my locale, my system recognizes the language etc. but is missing some characters that have nothing to do with English.

One thing I noticed is, that the $TERM variable has something to do with this. If I have it at default ("st-256color" in my case, I get the error above, but if I set $TERM variable to "" (nothing) it prints out error creating screen: exit status 1

Edit: Just to clarify, lf doesn't open at all. The error is all output it prints out and crashes immidiately

Here's some system information if that helps
Kernel: linux-5.8.3
WM: dwm
Terminal: st
Shell: bash
Distro: lfs (Linux from scratch)

[gokcehan]

@Toasterbirb We don't register character sets other than ascii and utf-8 with tcell since they would bloat the binary size for little or no reason. Is there a reason you're not using utf-8? I think 8859 encodings are legacy these days and I don't know any reason why they should be preferred over utf-8. If for some reason, you can't switch to utf-8, you can still use the ascii encoding though non-ascii characters will not be displayed properly. For example:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8  lf  # works
LANG=en_US.8859-1 lf  # character set not supported
LANG=en_US.ascii  lf  # works

Also you can always hack lf to register your encoding with tcell and rebuild from the source. I don't think you would need more than a few lines of additional code.

[Toasterbirb]

Setting LANG to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 fixed the issue. This just gets me wondering where have I set it to 8859-1, since in /etc/locale I have set it to UTF-8 but that's an issue on my side.

Thanks for the help, I'm closing the issue