Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:04:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using tcsh with 8bit characters Message-ID: <20030502120423.GE66954@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <64545.200.67.206.87.1051860195.squirrel@mail.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <200305011648.28755.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <20030501132059.GC62775@gothmog.gr> <64545.200.67.206.87.1051860195.squirrel@mail.esfm.ipn.mx>
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On 2003-05-02 02:23, Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> wrote: >> On 2003-05-01 16:48, JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >>> When you convert your keyboard layout to a different language, many >>> programs seem to accept special characters, but at the commandline >>> (tcsh) they never work, does anyone know how to fix this? (i searched >>> on google but all the results were in another language :/ >> >> It's usually a matter of correctly setting your locale in the >> environment. For instance, writing Greek characters at the tcsh >> prompt works fine here: >> >> : $ env | grep LC >> : LC_COLLATE=el_GR.ISO8859-7 >> : LC_CTYPE=el_GR.ISO8859-7 >> : $ env | grep LANG >> : LANG=C >> : $ tcsh >> : giorgos@gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> [type some greek text; hit ^C] >> : giorgos@gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> exit > > let me ask something else... > do you know how to make "pine" write foreign characters? I never had problems writing 8-bit text with Pine, but anyway... Set your locale related environment correctly, and then edit your ~/.pinerc file. There should be a line that sets `character-set' to US-ASCII or similar. Change that to the proper character set for your terminals and you should be set to go.
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