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French characters
Authored by: Ken Knoblauch on Mar 16, '02 11:02:52AM

Here is something that might be useful, if someone can suggest how
to apply it more generally. I was looking through my system to see if I had the source for vi to follow-up on the suggestion to recompile it for French characters and I came across the commands vis and unvis. It seems that piping keyboard commands through vis makes French accented characters appear in the terminal window and even in vi (although vi complains at start-up about needing to be piped through stdin and stdout). The problem with vi is that when I look at the file after saving it, the characters have returned to a character code (not octal, in fact, resembling more the keystroke command sequences of emacs, but I
haven't tried it with ISO-Latin-1, yet to see if that makes a difference). So if someone can suggest how to pipe a terminal session through vis, it might be a way to get foreign (at least for anglophones) characters in terminal mode.



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