On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Arto Huusko wrote:

> I'm trying to terminal programs, most notably tcsh, vi and joe are
> important to, to accept the "צ", and "ה" characters. This seems
> to be quite difficult.
> 
> >From wscons and Xterm, running the stock sh works just fine when
> I type צהצהצה. Tcsh won't hear about it, vi prints cryptict
> escape sequences and joe some strange characters.
> 
> Also, trying to cat/more text with scandinavian characters to wscons
> terminal doesn't print them correctly.
> 
> I read in tcsh manual that setting the LANG and LC_CTYPE environment
> variables would help. Fat chance. LANG is fi, LC_CTYPE iso-8859 (tried
> also iso-8859-1). Nothing happens nowhere.
> 
> What to do?


run "wsconsctl -k -w encoding=fi".
Later put it in rc.local to have it after each reboot.


Michael