On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:15:38PM +1030, dcpurton@chariot.net.au wrote: > > Hi, when I use zless to view gzipped HOW-TOs, and fancy characters, (ie > ones with accents) print as codes of some sort <E9> or <A9> in reverse > colour. > > using zcat produces the correct output > > how can I get less to work correctly? > export LESSCHARSET=iso8859 -- Best regard hashao