Hi,

I do frequently edit (vi/emacs) text files in foreign languages,
in particular French and German. In fact I have a French keyboard
on my ibook.

I just noticed that typing e.g. French characters produces weird
(unreadable) results in text files. Now I wonder how to change
this.

I usually (on other computers) use a Latin-1 setting, which I find
more convenient for my purposes than Unicode. So I guess the best
would be to get latin-1 going under fink .. is that possible ?

If not, what do I need to tell terminal/vi/emacs so that the
unicode generated by the ibook is readable ?

Also, is there a special setting (environment variable ?) to set
so that when I login another computer, vi et al can correctly
show texts under my terminal/xterm under fink ? (eg right now I
have a text which shows fine if I log in the machine where it is
stored and do a vi, but if I log in via the ibook using either
terminal or xterm, I can't read the text).

And last but not least, how does the language/character setting
work with X11 (I use the binaries from fink/stable) ? Eg changing the
keyboard under MacOsX has no effect on an xterm, whereas it changes
language/encoding for a terminal.

Oh yes, and what about international us style (typing ' then e for
instance producing e-accent-aigu) ? With some applications this
option is grayed out ..

Thanks for any tips on internationalizing my fink setup ..
Cheers,
  Marc



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