Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:36:48 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Gamito?= <gamito@netual.pt> To: Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No latin characters :( Message-ID: <41C91600.3070401@netual.pt> In-Reply-To: <20041222031203.63420.qmail@hyperreal.org> References: <20041222031203.63420.qmail@hyperreal.org>
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Hi Mike, Somehow, i did managed :) I think it was when i've set the terminals to iso-8859-1 and set LC_CTYPE. Thanks. Regards, Mário Gamito Mike Brown wrote: > Mário Gamito wrote: > >>Hi again, >> >>I did everything just as you told me. >>When i type a latin letter like á, etc., i get a greek letter :( > > > Internally, your "á" is probably byte 0xE1, as that is how it is defined by > the ISO-8859-1 character map, and I assume that it's being interpreted > correctly on the input side. If this byte is interpreted for output/display > according to another character map, then you will see some other character > that you didn't intend. For example, if it looks like "ß" (Latin small letter > sharp s, which is used when writing the German language), then the byte is > being interpreted according to CP437. > > If you tell us what character you get, it may help. We also need to know what > you are using for display. Anything you can tell us about your setup, and how > *we* can reproduce your results... There are so many possible points of > failure, and you have not told us enough. > > Are you using the console (using hardware text modes), or are you doing this > via an X Window session and a terminal window, or are you SSHing in and > looking at everything through a Windows or Mac OS X environment? If you're not > doing this at the console, then what SSH or terminal app are you using and how > do you have it configured? In what are you typing the non-ASCII characters -- > a shell? a text editor? Which one? All of these things make a difference. > > -Mike -- Mário Gamito Administração de sistemas e desenvolvimento Netual - Multimédia e Telecomunicações, Lda. Rua João Afonso, Nº1 3800-198 Aveiro - Portugal Tel. +351 234 371 431 / Fax. +351 234 371 438 E-mail: gamito@netual.pt www.netual.pt
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