it works fine for me. bash and vi also.

did you add LC_ALL to profile and export LC_ALL?

# /etc/profile
LC_ALL=iso_8859_1
export LC_ALL



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nils Kassube" <nika@kassube.de>
To: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Locale support


> Guten Abend.
> 
> What's the correct way to get umlauts using NetBSD/macppc
> 1.5.2? According to
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/index.html#locales
> 
> I have to use 
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/french-1.4/locale.tgz
> 
> Digging further in mailing lists archives I can read that
> this is not supported and locale support should be in 
> -current -- as of half a year ago. 
> 
> Using the default settings I've got umlauts in csh but
> not in bash or vi. *sigh* 
> 
> Cheers,
> Nils
>