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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Shell and german keyboard problem Date: 14 Dec 1996 01:00:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <58su6j$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32A7DCF7.3177@cisco.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32562 Bernd Kunze <bkunze@cisco.com> wrote: > Environment: 2.1.5-Release, german CP850 character set. > When running tcsh, german characters are not shown. > When running pdksh, german characters are shown as long as set -o emacs > is not set. > Same for sh and zsh. There's no locale for cp850 available. If you set your locale to `de' (or `de_DE'), this will actually be `de_DE.ISO_8859-1'. Hence your shells will probably only display characters that are marked printable as per the ISO 8859-1 definition files. I strongly recommend you using this characterset anyway; it's the only commonly accepted standard in the Unix world, and even Windows is using it (though called `ANSI' there). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)