On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing > to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work > under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution. [snip] > typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable with LANG set > to ISO-8859-1 :-( Is it a bug in the libc5 used with 1.1? A bug with > me? In any case, it's annoying...
Errm... What you care about is LC_CTYPE (character set), not LANG (language), methinks. Anyhow... I've compiled my own fr_CA locale file. If you're interested just e-mail me and I'll send you a copy. After that doing "setenv LC_CTYPE fr_CA" will make nvi happy... assuming it calls setlocale() somewhere. (I did a small test similar to yours and it worked iff I did a call to setlocale().) I'll probably do a set of Debian packages for locale support at some point in the future... After I've done all the other stuff I have to do. Christian
