From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 12:34:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8590C11802 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:34:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id VAA20070 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:34:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Cmse-000WyXC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:57:48 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 characters in an xterm Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:57:45 +0100 Message-ID: <7ac4hp$vlq$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Petrou 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.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message