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From: wolframs@elib.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Wolfram Schneider)
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To: listen@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Listen Manager fuer Forthdv)
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Subject: 8bit clean vi?
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Listen Manager fuer Forthdv writes:
>how do I manage to get the iso8859-1 characters displayed while working
>with vi. All I get is the hex-representation of the characters which
>looks not that nice....

Use locale.

$ env LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1 vi

or

$ LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1; export LANG; vi


Gruß Wolfram