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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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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