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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:26:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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Subject: Re: how to get "vi" to echo accented vowels, etc.
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Theodore Hope wrote:

> > > > > 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 :-)
>
> Yes, this only works in xterm, not on the console.
> I have never figured that out, but have lived with it that
> way (under BSDI) for years.
But, you would not believe it: my gnome desktop suddenly
speaks German. I never cared, but that is a nice feature.

Uli.

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