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From: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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Subject: Re: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc.
To: charon@labs.gr (Giorgos Keramidas)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:17:53 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <20011015145825.A79161@hades.hell.gr> from "Giorgos Keramidas" at Oct 15, 1 02:58:25 pm
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Giorgos,

Setting LANG to "es_ES.ISO_8859-1" makes it work perfectly, thanks!
I don't need to set LC_ALL, apparently (at least for this to
work in "vi" and the shell).

-T.


> Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to enter accented vowels
> > and other non-ASCII-7 characters in "vi".  
> > 
> > In an xterm, I can run "cat" (read/write stdin/stdout)
> > and then type ALT-i to get the 'e' with an acute accent,
> > ALT-a to get the 'a' with an acute accent, etc.
> > 
> > However, if I try to do that in "vi" each character is
> > echoed in hex, such as "\xe9" for ALT-i, "\xe1" for ALT-a,
> > etc.  The characters _are_ input correctly, it's just
> > that "vi" doesn't echo them as single chars on the screen :-(
> > 
> > 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
> 
> for French with ISO-8859-1 accents.  To see which languages/encodings
> are supported, look at the files of /usr/share/locale.
> 
> -giorgos

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