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- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Internationalized editing, Euro characters
- Message-ID: <PK39BIK@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Dec8.022352.27614@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:59:53 GMT
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- alex@igor.tamri.com (Alex Olender) writes:
-
- > Is there a way to tell "vi" to display these
- > characters as they "should" look.
-
- .login settings like 'stty pass8', 'stty -istrip' and similar ones
- (and of course, the right setup of your hardware) should convince Unix
- interfaces to allow 8 bit characters. The exact command varies with Unix
- versions. Choice of complete screen fonts may also be important.
-
- Other, also varying settings may be required to convince programs to
- accept 8 bit data as characters. On then Sun, e.g., the convention is
- setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
- vi would behave well in that environment.
-
- For input, the most general method without redefining keys / attaching
- function keys etc, is the compose key which is available on all modern
- keyboards and terminals. E.g., you would get a letter E with a grave accent
- by typing the key sequence compose-E-` . Certain programs, especially
- editors, may have their own methods.
-
- Printing may be another horror...
-