spanish chars in FreeBSD commands

Matthias Apitz guru at Sisis.de
Sat Sep 17 05:37:01 PDT 2005


El día miércoles, septiembre 14, 2005 a las 11:31:31 +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:

	...
> they work in FreeBSD with Xorg as well but some FreeBSD commands
> don't show the chars very well:
> 
> $ cat espanol
> áéíóñÁÉÍÓ¡¿
> $ od -c espanol
> 0000000  341 351 355 363 361 301 311 315 323 241 277  \n                
> 0000014
> $ more espanol
> <E1><E9><ED><F3><F1><C1><C9><CD><D3><A1><BF>
> $ vi espanol
> \xe1\xe9\xed\xf3\xf1\xc1\xc9\xcd\xd3\xa1\xbf
> 
> and the 'sh' ignores them at all; I monitored with truss(1) that
> the shell is reading them from STDIN but the chars are ignored, at
> least not echoed. Any hints?

it does work with the right LANG, for example:

$ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-1 sh
$ echo ¿qué tal?
¿qué tal?
$ 

	matthias
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