From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 22:16:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936B31065673 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346FC8FC0A for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:16:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m89MGK8b053391; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:16:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Lars Eighner Message-ID: <20080909221608.GB51272@thought.org> References: <20080909043503.GA21663@thought.org> <20080909165456.GA56556@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080909121430.M12798@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080909121430.M12798@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Roland Smith , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:16:14 -0000 On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:14:47PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> Guys, > >> > >> This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; > >> but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now > >> it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my > >> ~/.zshrc or other initiation files (probably including my muttrc) > >> that will let me print to stdout, characters like the "e-aigu" > >> or "u-umlaut" and the currency pound or Euro? > > The euro is not in iso-8859-1, but iso-8859-15. You need to > load the appropriate fonts (at boot if you are root, see /etc/rc.conf) Yeah, I fergot. > or use vidcontrol to load the iso fonts when you log in. You > need to set your TERM environmental variable to the appropriate > value in your shell rc. That might be cons25l1. You can check out termcap > from a link in /etc. > > > > > >Why settle for ISO-8859-1? Switch to UTF-8 instead, wich can display a > >much larger number of characters, and is becoming the standard. > > Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of > English and other European languages. I got into several fistfights when I was doing error-translation for BSD at work, and refused to use utf-8 because it didn't support enough of the Chinese glyphs. But enough, I suppose; unless you want to create some severely obscure word. I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per char for most of us. > > > > >I added the following to the 'setenv' section of the 'default' profile > >in login.conf: > > > > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > > >AFAICT, the console doesn't have UTF-8 fonts (yet?). > > It won't until video cards support this level of bloat. I don't know of a > single video card that does that. > > >But that doesn't > >bother me because I always use X anyway. > > Wouldn't you really be happier with Windoz? > Errp. I'm gonna lose my lunch! gary > > -- > Lars Eighner > http://www.larseighner.com/index.html > 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org