Re: ISO-8859-1 characters problem

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 09/21/03 

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:55:19 -0400

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:53:51 -0400, Ripley
  <ripleyinfo@iquebec.com> wrote:
> I crashed my machine and a good friend installed for me
> the last RedHat (2.4.20-19.9 from uname -a)
>
> The problem I have is that if I have a file, that contains
> ISO-8859-1 characters of code of value over 128 they are
> not displayed on an xterm but they are displayed in vi !
What if you run vi in an xterm?

> If I import this file in OpenOffice writer the characters
> of code of value over 128 are replaced by spaces...
>
> So what shoud I set up (some environment variable to some
> value) to have things work correctly.
>
LANG=en_CA.iso-8859-1 

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