Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:58:07 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 problems Message-ID: <20040218105807.GA30854@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <1077049653.126097@vestein> References: <1077049653.126097@vestein>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:26:46PM +0000, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: > Man page output is crippled, when LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. > This is corrected by loading a current less. > > vi does not work correctly on Umlauts. > I am not sure whether updating ncurses is sufficient; > or whether updating vi also is needed, > or both are insufficient. Both of these are probably caused by incorrect handling of multibyte characters in less & vi. Many of the text-processing utilities in the base system also share this problem. You could try using an ISO 8859 locale instead, or try using Vim (which probably supports UTF-8) instead of nvi. Tim
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