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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:54:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>,
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Subject: Re: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc.
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> 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
I tried to do this for German:
# setenv LANG de_DE
# setenv LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO_8859-1

vi then will print strange symbols instead of \xe7 when I
start it with
# env vi file
but not the letters I would like to use.
Are you sure there isn't some other secret behind that?

>
> for French with ISO-8859-1 accents.  To see which languages/encodings
> are supported, look at the files of /usr/share/locale.
>
> -giorgos
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