Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:20:03 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "vi"(again!) and french characters Message-ID: <365DE223.EF25975A@we.lc.ehu.es>
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Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> 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
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