Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal
Martin Würtele wrote:
>
> 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
Thanks. It worked. However, even when less doesn't complain, it also
doesn't show the spanish characters, just something like and invered
<F3> or <ED>, etc.
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