non-english chars in less

[David Purton <dcpurton@chariot.net.au>]

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?

also is there a linus equivalent of using ALT+0??? in windows to produce
these chars?


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David Purton

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