Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:57:45 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 characters in an xterm Message-ID: <7ac4hp$vlq$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
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David Petrou <dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I'm having trouble seeing ISO-8859-1 accent characters on my FreeBSD
> box. [...] I'm guessing it has something to do with my shell/env variables.
Probably you are using the 7-bit default "C" environment.
export LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1
(Depending on your language preference you might find something else
desirable. Check out /usr/share/locale for some alternatives.)
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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