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Type ctrl-v before typing a special character
Authored by: liyanage on Mar 13, '02 02:24:32PM

If a program in the shell won't accept your characters even after switching to ISO-8859-1, try to type ctrl-v before. Nothing will happen visually after typing ctrl-v, but the next character should be accepted.

It might get displayed as octal sequence like 344 prefixed by a backslash (which I can't seem to type here...), but it should reach the program correctly.



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Accents in terminal
Authored by: chtito on Mar 19, '02 09:36:26AM

I'm afraid the only way around is to use the zsh shell. It will allow you to use 8-bit characters. To my knowledge, this is impossible with tcsh, even with control-v. :o/



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