Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:45:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: misc questions re setting LANG Message-ID: <20070829184558.GA1125@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200708290151.l7T1oxCt030304@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu> References: <20070828063048.GA86574@thought.org> <200708290151.l7T1oxCt030304@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu>
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:04:20AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:30:48 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > Does anybody know howto set my env to iso.8859-1 (Latin1) > > so that, say [Alt]-i will produce an e-aigu? I think that's > > e-acute. I have it partlyworking in regular xterm. I can > > type the string > > > > % cafe > > > > with the final e being hex-e9 and I get > > > > "zsh: command not found: \M-i" > > > > which makes sense. It would be nice to see the cafe echoed > > with the aigu over the e, but whatever. On both the Gnome Terminal > > and the KDE Konsole, zip, nada, nothing. I've tried > > "Setttings" for the Konsole terms. No joy. I don't know where to > > mouse and click for Gnome. Oh,and most of the time in vi no Latin1 > > chars. > > Gary, > > If you run > > % xterm -lc iso-8859-1 > > you will get what you want, i.e. ISO-8859-1 terminal in UTF-8 > environment and Alt+I will produce "é". Please read xterm man page for > more explanation on -lc and -en. See also luit(1). > > If you really want to change the locale of Gnome/KDE/Xfce from default > UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (not recommended), then you should appropriately set > LANG and LC_ALL variables in ~/.xinitrc. Nikola, Thanks for the clue re xterm. I'm still using CTWM most places and use xterm exclusively. Sometimes I've been able to use 8859-1 in vi, sometimes not. Never read the man page (hanging my head). OTOT, I do have the LC* variables set ... else perl complains. ...It's time to join the 20th century:) gary > > Nikola Le??i?? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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