On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:42:26 -0400, Gene Kwiecinski wrote: >>thanks for your help. Even though I can see 'mu' and can insert it into > text >>using gvim, cat 'file' still displays just '?' where the character > should go. >>So I guess that this terminal (rox-term) is not configured to display > greek >>letters. I'll have to figure out how to set it up. > > Ummm, if it's a *console*, isn't it limited to single-byte characters? > That means typically only Latin1 (0-127) and Latin2 (128-255) > characters. Everything else would be unknown/undisplayable if it's not > in the console font.
The linux console supports UTF-8 encoding by sending special escape sequences to put the console into UTF-8 mode, and selecting an appropriate console font. I can't speak for other distributions, but if a UTF-8 locale is selected as the system default, then Debian does this automatically for you at bootup. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
