On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:09:20PM +0200, Michael Neumann wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:22:36AM +0200, Michael Neumann wrote:
> > > N is a number from 1 to 9, 13 or 15.
> > > I think ISO-8859-1 is for most europeen countries.
> > 
> > Yes, ISO-8859-1 is what I use :)
> > The display itself supports it; but some applications don't. You can add
> > support for the iso-8859-1 charset by installing the locale.tgz set from
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/french-1.4/
> > (works also for 1.5 !)
> 
> I've downloaded and installed it.
> Do I have to set anything else (e.g. environment variable) ?
> I ask because the mail-program "pine" shows the same information 
> (display set for US-ASCII, message in iso-8859-1) as before.

Yes, set LC_CTYPE to iso-8859-1 (it's documented in 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/french-1.4/README).

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