Probably your mc is compiled by Blastwave (CSW) and you are running Solaris 11. Try to download it from Ibiblio  and compile it by yourself.

Recommended configure settings:

 ./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-charset --with-samba

UTF8 is still not supported, though.

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