Quoting Matthias Scheler (08-May-98 18:47:02):

>> does anybody know how I can manage to get german umlauts
>> on the tcsh.

> 1.) Download
> "ftp://colwyn.owl.de/pub/unix/NetBSD/experimental/ctype.tar.gz".
> 2.) Extract it as root in "/".
> 3.) Use "setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1".

> Of course you need at least NetBSD 1.3 to make this work.

This works great while using tcsh (even with xterm)!

Is there anything which can be done to convince sh to behave
identically (printing Umlaute)?

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