Re: Locale in 1.1?

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

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> I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The
> /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it.
> 
> I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should
> support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it
> display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that?

AFAIK the locale support doesn't set your display font.
Perhaps you need to do a setfont with one of the iso* fonts in 
/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts ?

Ray