using tcsh with 8bit characters

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

> On 2003-05-01 16:48, JacobRhoden <jrhoden at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> When you convert your keyboard layout to a different language, many
>> programs seem to accept special characters, but at the commandline
>> (tcsh) they never work, does anyone know how to fix this? (i searched
>> on google but all the results were in another language :/
>
> It's usually a matter of correctly setting your locale in the
> environment.  For instance, writing Greek characters at the tcsh
> prompt works fine here:
>
> : $ env | grep LC
> : LC_COLLATE=el_GR.ISO8859-7
> : LC_CTYPE=el_GR.ISO8859-7
> : $ env | grep LANG
> : LANG=C
> : $ tcsh
> : giorgos at gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> [type some greek text; hit ^C]
> : giorgos at gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> exit
>
> - Giorgos

let me ask something else...

do you know how to make "pine" write foreign characters?