Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
> I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the
> installation.
>
> If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it
> displays just fine. However, if I type it in console mode, or in a
> terminal inside X, it just beeps and doesn't show anything. Where could
> my problem be?
make shure, in /etc/inputrc you have the line
set convert-meta off
(at least this helped for germen characters in the console)
if less complains about a binary file when viewing a file with spanish
characters try setting
LC_CTYPE=es_ES ISO-8859-1
or whatever codepage you use.
hth martin
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