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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:45:05 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
To:        dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISO-8859-1 characters in an xterm
Message-ID:  <19990216134505.A19650@matti.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>; from David Petrou on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:42:57PM -0500
References:  <199902152042.PAA17297@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>

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On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:42:57PM -0500, David Petrou <dpetrou@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> 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

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