From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 6: 5:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD6737B406 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fortuna.paeps.cx (D5762326.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.35.38]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF40E2179A4; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:05:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server (juno.paeps.cx [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11AE1A98; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:05:23 +0200 (CEST) From: "Philip Paeps" To: "'P. U. (Uli) Kruppa'" , "'Giorgos Keramidas'" Cc: "'Theodore Hope'" , Subject: RE: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc. Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:05:19 +0200 Message-ID: <01db01c1557a$0a5d9200$0200000a@paeps.cx> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20011015124654.Q287-100000@big> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > > In BSDI, this works (in "vi") if I have the "LC_CTYPE" > > > environment variable set to "ISO8859-1", but setting this > > > in FreeBSD doesn't change anything. > > > > I can work with Greek characters (which are 8-bit too) when I set in > > my environment > > > > LANG=el_GR > > LC_ALL=el_GR.ISO8859-7 > > > > Try setting these two to proper values for your locale. > For instance, > > these would be set to > > > > LANG=fr_FR > > LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 > I tried to do this for German: > # setenv LANG de_DE > # setenv LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO_8859-1 > > vi then will print strange symbols instead of \xe7 when I > start it with > # env vi file > but not the letters I would like to use. > Are you sure there isn't some other secret behind that? I'm having trouble with this too. The funny thing is that it works in an xterm, but not with cons25. I've learned to live with it over the years, but if anyone has a secret trick to make my ISO-8859-1 characters work, I'll be so happy I won't know what to do with myself :-) - Philip - -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.vitaya.tv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.1 iQA/AwUBO8rfDr9L0OYEnbh5EQItSwCgrNRi1y1d4XKxxl9uUDJ0AyClgTwAoMDN DwFiJFW59SFEuj9Yw/XxnnjC =9vr8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message