From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 26 15:20:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15229 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:20:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA15223 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:20:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA08918; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:20:04 +0100 Message-ID: <365DE223.EF25975A@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:20:03 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malartre CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "vi"(again!) and french characters Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Malartre wrote: > I have set syscons to use qc.ca.kbd, which is my personnal french > keymap. > It work fine (exemple: "ALT-/" = "é") under a virtual terminal. > But when I use the vi editor, I see something between \xe0 and \xe9. > "ee" work fine. > I would like to know how can I make it work for all those applications. You must set your locale environment; i.e., set the LANG environment variable to "fr_CA.ISO_8859-1" (french language, Canada). Hope this helps, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-944647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message