From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7617 invoked from network); 16 Feb 1997 13:11:01 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Feb 1997 13:11:01 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA04220; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 07:48:09 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 07:41:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19970216134343.00294@ens-lyon.fr> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:43:43 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Stupid question: how to get accents in zsh? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1e X-Mailer-Info: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~vlefevre/mutt_eng.html In-Reply-To: ; from Louis-David Mitterrand on Feb 15, 1997 at 02:19:29PM -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <"IvUQ6.0.I01.92m1p"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/683 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Feb 15, 1997 at 02:19:29PM -0500, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > I can't seem to get accented characters in zsh, I tried: > > export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 > export LANG=iso_8859_1 Here, LANG mustn't be defined. > stty cs8 -istrip Try: stty -parenb -istrip cs8 Look also at your terminal settings. For instance, if you use xterm, eightBitOutput must be true. > I looked everywhere in zsh-doc, but I can't find any builtin. I don't think it comes from zsh. Try another shell (e.g. sh), and try "cat". Do you get 8-bit chars in those cases? -- Vincent Lefevre, vlefevre@ens-lyon.fr | Acorn Risc PC, StrongARM @ 202MHz http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~vlefevre | 20+1MB RAM, Eagle M2, TV + Teletext PhD in Computer Science, 1st year | Apple CD-300, SyQuest 270MB (SCSI) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------