Peter Hessler <phess...@theapt.org> wrote: > export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > in my .xinitrc / .xsession tells programs To Do The Right Thing. > Of course, not everything supports UTF8, so your milage may vary.
If Matias is only concerned about Spanish, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 might be better advice, in particular since vi(1) and mg(1) in base can deal with single-byte character encodings, but not UTF-8. And if somebody wants to understand what this character stuff is all about, I recommend Jukka Korpela's "A tutorial on character code issues" <URL:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html>. Very good, and far too long for anybody to read. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
