Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:58:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc. Message-ID: <20011015145825.A79161@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200110141955.NAA11373@iguana.internexo.co.cr> References: <200110141955.NAA11373@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> wrote: > 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. I can work with Greek characters (which are 8-bit too) when I set in my environment LANG=el_GR LC_ALL=el_GR.ISO8859-7 Try setting these two to proper values for your locale. For instance, these would be set to LANG=fr_FR LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 for French with ISO-8859-1 accents. To see which languages/encodings are supported, look at the files of /usr/share/locale. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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