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From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de, Thorsten Meinecke <kaefer@aglaia.aball.DE>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in history and completion
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:41:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199609290841.KAA02842@anna.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.960927161158.691D-100000@itsrm1.mow.sni.de> (message from Andrej Borsenkow on Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:19:50 +0400 (MOW))

>>>>> Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@sni.de> writes:

  [..8-bit characters in completion displayed as \M-x...]

 andrej> I hope yes ;) It depends on current locale settings. The shell variables, 
 andrej> which control it, are (from low to high prio): LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL.
 andrej> You have to set one of them to the name of German locale. I don't know,
 andrej> how locale names look like on your system; on my setting LC_CTYPE to
 andrej> De_DE.88591 solves your problem.

Thanks. It turned out that the isprint function displays the
appropriate characters even for the en_US locale on my system
(IRIX). So setting 

LANG=en_US

does the trick. Thanks again,
andreas



      reply	other threads:[~1996-09-29  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-09-26  5:29 Andreas Koenig
1996-09-27 12:19 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-09-29  8:41   ` Andreas Koenig [this message]

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