From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18411 invoked from network); 26 Jun 1997 08:13:03 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Jun 1997 08:13:03 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA01266; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 04:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 03:56:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706260800.KAA29180@hydra.ifh.de> To: Wolfgang Hukriede , zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list) Subject: Re: FAQ, German Umlauts In-reply-to: "Wolfgang Hukriede"'s message of "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:46:47 MET." <199706252046.WAA23971@sally.ifm.uni-kiel.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:00:12 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"t88Cl1.0.wH.P2Yip"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/913 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 3.6: How do I make the completion list use eight bit characters? Wolfgang Hukriede wrote: > Peter, I think you're on the wrong road here. The locale settings cannot > change hardware-properties, can they? The entry is simply about the zsh side of the issue and what you can do to make zsh print out non-ASCII characters. Further than that I can't go in a zsh-related document. I can, however, make it clearer what has to be available for zsh to be able to do its part. I nearly put `in my xterm' at the end of the question. I'll add a paragraph at the beginning along the lines of: A traditional UNIX environment (character terminal and ASCII character sets) is not sufficient to be able to handle non-ASCII characters. However, if you have something like an xterm using a standard character set like ISO-8859-1 (which is often the default for xterm), read on. You should also note question link(3.4)(34) on the subject of eight bit characters. In this case the rest of the entry should point you in the right direction. If the locales are not set up correctly for the fonts available on the system, that's a bug in the system installation. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.