misc questions re setting LANG

[Nikola Lecic]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:30:48 -0700
Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:

> 	Does anybody know howto set my env to iso.8859-1 (Latin1)
> 	so that, say [Alt]-i will produce an e-aigu?  I think that's
> 	e-acute.  I have it partlyworking in regular xterm.  I can
> type the string
> 
> 	% cafe 
> 
> 	with the final e being  hex-e9 and I get 
> 
> 	"zsh: command not found: \M-i"
> 
> 	which makes sense.  It would be nice to see the cafe echoed
> with the aigu over the e, but whatever.  On both the Gnome Terminal 
> 	and the KDE Konsole, zip, nada, nothing.  I've tried
> "Setttings" for the Konsole terms. No joy.  I don't know where to
> mouse and click for Gnome.  Oh,and most of the time in vi no Latin1
> chars.

Gary,

If you run

  % xterm -lc iso-8859-1

you will get what you want, i.e. ISO-8859-1 terminal in UTF-8
environment and Alt+I will produce "é". Please read xterm man page for
more explanation on -lc and -en. See also luit(1).

If you really want to change the locale of Gnome/KDE/Xfce from default
UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (not recommended), then you should appropriately set
LANG and LC_ALL variables in ~/.xinitrc.

Nikola Lečić