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Re: 8-bit characters in history and completion

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From: Andreas Koenig <k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx, Thorsten Meinecke <kaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in history and completion
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:41:03 +0200
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.SV4.3.95.960927161158.691D-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (message from Andrej Borsenkow on Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:19:50 +0400 (MOW))
Reply-to: andreas.koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>>>>> Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx> writes:

  [..8-bit characters in completion displayed as \M-x...]

 andrej> I hope yes ;) It depends on current locale settings. The shell variables, 
 andrej> which control it, are (from low to high prio): LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL.
 andrej> You have to set one of them to the name of German locale. I don't know,
 andrej> how locale names look like on your system; on my setting LC_CTYPE to
 andrej> De_DE.88591 solves your problem.

Thanks. It turned out that the isprint function displays the
appropriate characters even for the en_US locale on my system
(IRIX). So setting 

LANG=en_US

does the trick. Thanks again,
andreas

References:
- Re: 8-bit characters in history and completion
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow

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