Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 02:23:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using tcsh with 8bit characters Message-ID: <64545.200.67.206.87.1051860195.squirrel@mail.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030501132059.GC62775@gothmog.gr> References: <200305011648.28755.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <20030501132059.GC62775@gothmog.gr>
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> 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 > > - Giorgos let me ask something else... do you know how to make "pine" write foreign characters?
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