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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:41:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
To:        Christophe Prevotaux <nighty@hexanet.fr>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: How to display French Characters?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970429220745.joki@jocki.domestic.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970429092452.0069b65c@mail.hexanet.fr>

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Hi,

Use vidfont(1) to find the font you want to use. Here in western Europe that'll
probabyl be ISO8859-1. Then set the font8x8, font14x8 and font16x8 variables in
/etc/sysconfig to the font name that is output by vidfont. THis will usually be
iso-font8x8, iso-font14x8 and iso-font16x8. Works great for me!

Also, is your LANG variable correctly set? This can be done in /etc/profile.
That way, vi talks German to me, and maybe it also speaks French!
In /etc/profile you can also set MM_CHARSET, although I don't know what that's
for...

c u Jo

On 29-Apr-97 at 07:24:54 Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am using FreeBSD 2.1.7 and I could use my French keyboard with no problems
>at all , however I would like to be able to see french characters on my
>ttys and main console as well as virtual consoles .
>
>How can I do this ?
>
>
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