On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:46:34PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | pooh. i tried setting LESSCHARSET=iso8859 (and latin1) via | bash 'export' so it'd be an environment variable, but even LESS | still displays high-bit (8-bit) characters as chinese: | | % export LESSCHARSET=latin1 | % zless /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz | [snip] | compose '^' 'u' to 'û' | compose '"' 'U' to 'Ü' | compose '"' 'u' to 'ü' | compose '\'' 'Y' to 'Ý' | compose '\'' 'y' to 'ý' | compose 'T' 'H' to 'Þ' | compose 't' 'h' to 'þ' | compose 's' 's' to 'ß' | compose '"' 'y' to 'ÿ' | compose 's' 'z' to 'ß' | compose 'i' 'j' to 'ÿ'
Still looks fine here. Try $ cp /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz /tmp $ gunzip /tmp/default.kmap.gz $ less /tmp/default.kmap Perhaps zless doesn't use the same environment variables as less? -D