Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:08:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1?? Message-ID: <20080909180815.F09D78FC18@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080909121430.M12798@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:14:47PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; >>> but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now >>> it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my >>> ~/.zshrc or other initiation files (probably including my muttrc) >>> that will let me print to stdout, characters like the "e-aigu" >>> or "u-umlaut" and the currency pound or Euro? > > The euro is not in iso-8859-1, but iso-8859-15. You need to > load the appropriate fonts (at boot if you are root, see /etc/rc.conf) > or use vidcontrol to load the iso fonts when you log in. You > need to set your TERM environmental variable to the appropriate > value in your shell rc. That might be cons25l1. You can check out termcap > from a link in /etc. > > >> >> Why settle for ISO-8859-1? Switch to UTF-8 instead, wich can display a >> much larger number of characters, and is becoming the standard. > > Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of > English and other European languages. What ISO supports English, German, French, and Russian?
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