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From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi and chars > 0x7f ?
Date: 22 Nov 1995 10:32:02 +0100
Organization: dis-
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Message-ID: <48uqmi$j4i@serpens.rhein.de>
References: <48qg6i$cr8@murmel.camelot.de>
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thomas@murmel.camelot.de (Thomas Gerner) writes:
>How can I tell vi to print the char and not the hexcode? I found nothing
>in the manual of vi.
vi uses the ctype functions to determine wether a character is
printable. The ctype functions use the current locale to determine
character sets. The C library currently (? at least for 1.0) just
knows about the default "C" locale which corresponds to ASCII.
Any non-ASCII character is not printable and vi will show it in hex
(or octal if you insist).
As soon as the C library implements different locales (like a
ISO Latin 1 locale) this is fixed. To tell the C library and vi
about the locale you can set several environment variables. For
the correct treatment of ISO Latin 1 character classes you would
do a:
setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
Regards,
--
Michael van Elst
Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
"A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."