Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:38:53 +0200 From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted Message-ID: <20130717133853.GB8391@baumbart.home.lxtec.de> In-Reply-To: <201307171214.r6HCELjV058010@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201307171214.r6HCELjV058010@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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* Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> [2013-07-17 13:14 +0100]: > I tried, in tcsh: > > % setenv |grep FR > XTERM_LOCALE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 > > but the accented French characters are corrupted, e.g. in > /usr/ports/french/aster/pkg-descr. > > I built xterm with > > % make -C /usr/ports/x11/xterm showconfig > ===> The following configuration options are available for xterm-296: > 256COLOR=on: Enable 256-color support > DABBREV=off: Enable support for dabbrev-expand > DECTERM=off: Enable DECterm Locator support > GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support > LUIT=on: Use LUIT for locale convertion from/to UTF-8 > PCRE=on: Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions > SIXEL=on: Enable Sixel graphics support > WCHAR=on: Enable wide-character support > ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings > > I usually can read russian with either > ru_RU.KOI8-R or en_US.UTF-8 in xterm, so I think > the xterm is set up correctly to view 8-bit characters. Doesn't fr_FR.UTF8 work? Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or ist it me?
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