Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:55:23 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc. Message-ID: <200110141955.NAA11373@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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I'm trying to figure out how to enter accented vowels and other non-ASCII-7 characters in "vi". In an xterm, I can run "cat" (read/write stdin/stdout) and then type ALT-i to get the 'e' with an acute accent, ALT-a to get the 'a' with an acute accent, etc. However, if I try to do that in "vi" each character is echoed in hex, such as "\xe9" for ALT-i, "\xe1" for ALT-a, etc. The characters _are_ input correctly, it's just that "vi" doesn't echo them as single chars on the screen :-( In BSDI, this works (in "vi") if I have the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable set to "ISO8859-1", but setting this in FreeBSD doesn't change anything. Any tips appreciated, thanks! -T.H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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