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Subject: Re: 8bit clean vi? 
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>>$ LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1; export LANG; vi
>I tried this (with sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 and keymaps swedish.iso or swedish.cp850)
>and it doesn't work. The best results are (of course) when using LANG together
>with swedish.iso. Then our national characters are at least the same in vi as
>on the commandline and no hexcodes. But they are Greek alphabet instead of
>Swedish. Rather useless.

Do you use an iso font? (e.g. /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt)


>Therefore my little vi-hack. But if there is a better way, like this, that
>works, I'd be very happy to hear about it.

BTW, ``en_US.ISO_8859-1'' is also 8bit clean. 

Wolfram