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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:42:03 +0300 (EEST)
From: Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>
Reply-To: Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>
To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Subject: Re: Nvi and locale
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I can't get vi to properly display my national characters. As I read in
> nvi docs, I should set my locale, so I did:
> 
> setenv LANG C
> setenv LC_CTYPE lt_LN.ISO-8859-1	<- from nvi docs (why ???)
> 
> and it still prints all the special characters as \xf3 \xb6 and so on.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

What I found is that setlocale in 2.2.x is not setting "partial"
locale information when called as setlocale(LC_ALL,"") -- as it is
called at the beginning of the most progs. 

E.g., I have "export LANG=ru_SU.KOI8-R", but I don't like to have
dates displayed in Russian, so I setted also LC_TIME=ascii. But in
such a case after setlocale(LC_ALL,"") I have all LC_xxxx set to C
:-(, and nvi treats all that russian chars as non-printable.

In 2.1.x that seems to work differently.

> 
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> ---
> Andrzej Bialecki                  FreeBSD: Turning PCs Into Workstations
> <abial@warman.org.pl>             http://www.freebsd.org
> Research and Academic Network in Poland
> 

--
Litvin Alexander

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