Quoting Markus Illenseer (20-Aug-98 19:35:44):

>> I suppose you mean that /bin/sh can never ever show Umlaute, right?
>> Then try to login to an account, which is using /bin/sh, but where
>> the
>> $HOME/.profile is not found (deleted, renamed, ...)! When I do this
>> here, I *get* Umlaute with /bin/sh.

> Might have been changed lately. I never use Umlauts in UNIX shells,
> and I still dont know what for you are using them? :-)

To be honest, no real reason, except that my final aim is to get with
NetBSD on the Internet, using a good Mailer with Umlaute in a nive
environment (like fvwm2).

To come back to the subject, $HOME/.profile can stay where it is, but
'set -E' (which was set in my $HOME/.profile) apparently kills the
ability of /bin/sh to use Umlaute. When starting vi from /bin/sh, it
*doesn't* show Umlaute properly (codes are shown).

However when vi is started from tcsh, Umlaute are also shown with vi.

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