From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 03:45:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06801 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 03:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA06792 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 03:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.8.8/8.8.8.s) with ESMTP id NAA05104; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:45:05 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA19769; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:45:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Message-ID: <19990216134505.A19650@matti.ee> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:45:05 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 characters in an xterm Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>; from David Petrou on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:42:57PM -0500 Organization: =?iso-8859-15?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:42:57PM -0500, David Petrou wrote: > I'm having trouble seeing ISO-8859-1 accent characters on my FreeBSD > box. Let's say I 'more' (or 'emacs -nw', etc.) on a file in an xterm > with these characters. They come up as '?' characters. > > I'm guessing it has something to do with my shell/env variables. Maybe your locale settings are wrong? When using bash, you should try setting your .inputrc to contain something as: set convert-meta Off set input-meta On set output-meta On -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message