From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:59:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A28816A550; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862443E17; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:56:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id kBHLuHNr042315; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:56:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:56:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andrew Pantyukhin Message-ID: <20061217215617.GG43992@dan.emsphone.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: frdp@freebsd.org.ua, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: On-the-fly auto charset conversion or something X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:59:32 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 17), Andrew Pantyukhin said: > I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously. Naturally, I > use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to work with some exotic > (8-bit mostly) charset, I have to resort to iconv(1), which is not > very comfortable. > > Does anyone have any idea of how to solve this problem? I'm thinking > on-the-fly charset conversion, but I am prepared to reconsider my > workflow habits and adopt some policies. I think you can use the luit command to translate between other character sets on a utf-8 terminal. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com