Re: command line applications don't handle accented characters well

From: James Wilkinson (james_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/24/04

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    Paul Tomblin wrote:
    > Before "upgrading" to Fedora Core 3 from RedHat 9,
    > termcap/terminfo/ncurses applications handled accented characters
    > well. But now, they're a mish-mash.
    >
    > For instance, somebody sent me an email with a word in the subject
    > line with some sort of accent. I'm ssh'ed in from a RedHat 9 machine.
    > In mutt's list of messages, the word looks like
    > "Laoc<i-umlaut><upside down question mark><1/2>n". In the mutt
    > message display, it looks like "Laoco\366n". In less it looks like
    > "Laoco<o-umlaut>n" (which is actually correct). In vim, it looks like
    > "Laoco<capital-A-squiggle><backwards paragraph symbol>n". Also,
    > yesterday I tried to type a British pound sign in vim (using ^KPd), I
    > got a <capital-A-squiggle> as well as the pound sign, and they acted
    > like one character that took up two spaces. I get similar but
    > different results when I ssh in from a Macintosh.

    Hi Paul,

    It sounds like you've got UTF-8 issues.

    The SSH protocol doesn't really have support for different character
    sets on either end. Can you check what LANG and LC_ are on the various
    boxes?

    It works fine for me, either locally or SSHed in from elsewhere.

    James. 

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