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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:20:03 +0100
From:      "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "vi"(again!) and french characters
Message-ID:  <365DE223.EF25975A@we.lc.ehu.es>

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Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> wrote:
> I have set syscons to use qc.ca.kbd, which is my personnal french
> keymap.
> It work fine (exemple: "ALT-/" = "é") under a virtual terminal.
> But when I use the vi editor, I see something between \xe0 and \xe9.
> "ee" work fine.
> I would like to know how can I make it work for all those applications.

You must set your locale environment; i.e., set the LANG environment
variable to "fr_CA.ISO_8859-1" (french language, Canada).

Hope this helps,
-- JMA
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