On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:00:06AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 02:46:07AM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > > I don't know of any terminals that have display "problems" with high-ascii > > characters. Obviously we want to avoid sending raw NUL or ESC or NL or CR > > control characters, of course, but that's not the question. As far as I > > know, the worst that can happen if you have a 7-bit terminal is the extra > > bit will get lost and the "wrong" character will display. > > But there's the catch, to display raw upper-ASCII one must also display > raw lower-ASCII. Gotcha! RTFM - try export LESSCHARSET=latin1. I really dislike less as it is in Debian. I was used to the SuSE-Version which automatically formats groff-files, unpacks gzip-files, show german umlaut's correctly and so on... But I also do not like the /etc/profile distributed with SuSE - it has about 200 exports... I would suggest to make "less" a script which calls a file "less.bin" with the right parameters gotten from a configuration file in /etc. I would be nice to have a setup program for this. I would do this but I guess most of the developers in US will dislike this solution because "this is unneccesarry and introduces additional overhead"... cu Torsten
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