How to turn off colors in ZSH shell? Make it black and white with unicode support!!!

Question

Once when I got my hand on openbsd I was really happy to have black and white terminal, I, somehow, orienting much more with b/w colors..

Anyway I know just one option to do it.

export TERM="linux-m" 

and openbsd used something else like "vt8.." i don't remember.

Now I have freebsd on my dedicated server, I want to have black and white terminal again. On bash it works perfectly even in sh, i got normal unicode in Midnight commander for example... but when I entering ZSH with TERM="linux-m" in mc I have unicode problem , edges just a bunch of letters...

in /etc/login.conf i've got this locales:

unicode|Unicode Users Accounts:\
        :charset=UTF-8:\
        :lang=en_US.UTF-8:\
        :lc_all=en_US.UTF-8:\
        :tc=default:

here's screenshots

Answer 1

Try:

TERM=xterm-mono