Subject: Re: displaying iso-8859-1 characters naturally with less?
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 10/25/1998 21:03:50 
On Oct 24, John Kohl wrote
> Is there a LANG I can set which will tell less(1) to display ISO-8859-1
> characters naturally, and not as <XX> hex codes?
> 
> I tried "fr" but that doesn't work :(
> 

LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1, and install the /usr/share/locale/iso_8859_1
from /pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/french. This way you'll have ISO-8859-1 in
less and all other utilities (such as vi :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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